About the Authors

Heming Xing

Affiliation Gene Network Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul D. McDonagh

mcdonagh@gnsbiotech.com

Affiliation Gene Network Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jadwiga Bienkowska

Affiliation Biogen Idec, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tanya Cashorali

Affiliation Gene Network Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karl Runge

Affiliation Gene Network Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert E. Miller

Affiliation Gene Network Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dave DeCaprio

Affiliation Gene Network Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bruce Church

Affiliation Gene Network Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ronenn Roubenoff

Current address: Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Biogen Idec, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Iya G. Khalil

Affiliation Gene Network Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

John Carulli

Affiliation Biogen Idec, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Jadwiga Bienkowska and John Carulli are employees of and shareholders in Biogen Idec.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HX PDM RR IGK JC. Performed the experiments: JB. Analyzed the data: HX PDM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HX PDM JB KR REM DD BC. Wrote the paper: HX PDM TC KR JC.