Departments of aEpidemiology
bBiostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
cDepartment of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
dUAB Biostatistics, Diabetes Center for Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
eUAB Epidemiology, Center for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
fDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
gNCState Biostatistics, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
hDepartment of Genetics, Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
iLaboratory of Statistical and Mathematical Genetics
jLaboratory for Biochemistry, Molecular Phenotyping, and Microarray
kInstitute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA
* Marguerite R. Irvin, Daniel M. Rotroff, Stella Aslibekyan, Degui Zhi, Michael J. Wagner and Donna K. Arnett contributed equally to the writing of this article.
Correspondence to Marguerite R. Irvin, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1530 3rd Avenue South, Birmingham AL 35294-0022, USA Tel: +1 205 975 7672; fax: +1 205 934 8665; e-mail: [email protected]
Received August 21, 2015
Accepted February 23, 2016
