About the Authors

Peilin Jia

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Lily Wang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Ayman H. Fanous

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavior Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Washington VA Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Carlos N. Pato

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Todd L. Edwards

Affiliations Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Division of Epidemiolgy, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

The International Schizophrenia Consortium

For a list of members please see the Acknowledgments.

Zhongming Zhao

zhongming.zhao@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PJ ZZ. Performed the experiments: PJ LW ZZ. Analyzed the data: PJ ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PJ AHF CNP. Wrote the paper: PJ LW AHF TLE ZZ.