About the Authors

Iuliana Ionita-Laza

Contributed equally to this work with: Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Marinela Capanu

ii2135@columbia.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Marinela Capanu

Contributed equally to this work with: Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Marinela Capanu

Affiliation Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Silvia De Rubeis

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Departments of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Kenneth McCallum

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Joseph D. Buxbaum

Affiliations Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Departments of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Departments of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and Neuroscience, and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IIL MC. Performed the experiments: IIL MC. Analyzed the data: IIL MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDR KM JDB. Wrote the paper: IIL MC SDR KM JDB.