List of Contributors

Advisory Board

Paul R. Billings President and Chief Executive Officer,
CELLPOINT DIAGNOSTICS, 265 N. Whisman Road,
Mountain View, CA 94043

Robert Cook-Deegan Center for Genome Ethics, Law &
Policy, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Box
90141, Durham, NC 27708

Kay E. Davies Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford, QX1 3QX, UK

Brian Druker Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Sciences University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon 97239

Victor Dzau Office of the Chancellor, Duke University Health System, Box 3701, Durham, NC 27710

Eric Green National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, 50 South Drive, Room 5222, Bethesda, MD 20892-8002

Muin J. Khoury Office of Genomics & Disease Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333

Mary-Claire King University of Washington, 1705 Northeast Pacific Street, Box 357720, Seattle, WA 98195-7720

Raju Kucherlapati Center for Genetics and Genomics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Ste 250, Boston, MA 02115

Elizabeth G. Nabel National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 31 Center Drive MSC 2486, Building 31, Room 5A52, Bethesda, MD 20892

Robert L. Strausberg Human Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute, 9704 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850

Robert I. Tepper Third Rock Ventures, LLC, 29 Newbury St., Boston, MA 02116

Janet A. Warrington External RNA Controls Consortium, Affymetrix, 3380 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051

Ralph Weissleder Center, Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, 149 13th Street, Room 5406, Charlestown MA 02129

Janet Woodcock Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Parklawn Buildling, Rm 14-71, Rockville, MD 20857

Contributors

Michael J. Ackerman Mayo Clinic, Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.

Matthew L. Anderson Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.

Felicita Andreotti Institute of Cardiology, Catholic University Medical School, Rome-Italy.

Brian H. Annex Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Anthony Antonellis Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Dmitri Artemov Department of Radiology – MR Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

James R. Bain Departments of Radiology and Internal Medicine, Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.

Peter J. Barnes National Heart and Lung Institute, Section of Airway Disease, London, SW3 6LY, UK.

J.S. Barnholtz-Sloan Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Richard C. Becker Department of Medicine – Cardiovascular Thrombosis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA.

Ivor. J. Benjamin Division of Cardiology, Center for Cardiovascular Translational Biomedicine, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Paul R. Billings President and Chief Executive Officer, CELLPOINT DIAGNOSTICS, 265 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA 94043

Simon C. Body Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Mark Boguski Harvard Medical School, Center for Biomedical Informatics, 10 Shattuck St., Boston, MA 02115

Stefano Bonassi Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy.

Brigitta Bondy Section Psychiatric Genetics and Neurochemistry, Psychiatric Hospital of University Munich, Munich, Germany.

J. Martijn Bos Mayo Clinic, Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.

Roger E. Breitbart Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Jerome Brody Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA.

Matthew P. Brown Omics Consulting LLC, Clayton, CA, USA.

Lars Bullinger Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.

Shawn C. Burgess Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27704, USA.

Atul J. Butte Department of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

David J. Carey Weis Center for Research/Geisinger Clinic, Danville, PA 17822-2607, USA.

George Carlson McLaughlin Research Institute, Great Falls, MT, USA

Juan C. Celedón Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Center for Genomic Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA.

Subhashini Chandrasekharan Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

Wing C. (John) Chang Department of Pathology, Center for Lymphoma and Leukemia Research, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.

Yan Chen Department of Chemistry, Shands Cancer Center and UF Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

Antonio Chiocca Department of Neurological Surgery, Dardinger Laboratory for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, The Ohio State University Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA .

Theresa Puifun Chow Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore Tissue Network, Singapore.

Wendy K. Chung Department of Pediatrics, Division of Molecular Genetics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.

Robert Cook-Deegan Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

Dolores Corella Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer–U.S. Department of Agriculture, Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA; Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.

Susan Cottrell Amgen, Inc., Seattle, WA 98119, USA.

Nancy J. Cox Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

Nigel P.S. Crawford CCR/NCI/NIH, Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4264, USA.

A. Jamie Cuticchia Bioinformatics Group, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Durham, NC 27708, USA

Dieter Deforce Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Mario C. Deng Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Gayathri Devi Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Theo deVos Epigenomics, Inc, Seattle, WA, USA.

Juergen Distler Epigenomics, AG, Berlin, Germany.

Harmut Dohner Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Ulm, Germany.

Ayotunde O. Dokun Division of Endocrinology Metabolism and Nutrition.

Mark R. Edbrooke Pharmacogenetics, GlaxoSmithKline, Durham, NC 27709, USA.

Lucas B. Edelman Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Dirk Elewaut Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.

Niels Emmerich.

Charles J. Epstein Department of Pediatrics and Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.

Ayman H. Fanous Washington VA Medical Center, Washington, DC, 20422, USA.

Phillip G. Febbo Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Department of Medicine – Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Robert J. Feezor Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL.

Yonmei Feng Department of Pathology and the Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

Zeno Földes-Papp ISS, National Center of Fluorescence, Champaign, Illinois 61822, USA.

Hidehiko Fujinaka Institute for Clinical Research, Niigata National Hospital, Niigata 951-8585, Japan.

David J. Galas Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA; Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH, USA.

Louis, P. Garrison Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

Glenn S. Gerhard Weis Center for Research/Geisinger Clinic, Danville, PA 17822-2607, USA.

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg Center for Genomic Medicine, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Bjorn T. Gjertsen Institute of Medicine, Hematology, Haukeland University Hospital, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Michael Glass Newborn Screening Program, Washington State Department of Health, Shoreline, WA 98155, USA.

David B. Goldstein Center for Population Genomics and Pharmacogenetics, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Erynn S. Gordon Division of Pediatric Genetics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Tucker Gosnell Massachussetts General Hospital Cancer
Center, Boston, MA, USA.

Peter Grass Biomarker Development, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland.

Eric D. Green Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesa, MD 20892, USA.

Iris Grossman Pharmacogenetics, Research and Development, GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.

Marta Gwinn National Offi ce of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA.

Carolina Haefliger Epigenomics, AG, Berlin, Germany.

Susanne B. Haga Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Per Hall Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Joshua M. Hare Division of Cardiology and Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami FL 33136, USA.

Ahmad Hariri Developmental Imaging Genetics Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

James R. Heath Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Los Angels, CA, USA .

Robert A. Hegele Robarts Research Institute, Blackburn Genetics Laboratory, London, ONT, Canada.

Bettina Heidecker Division of Cardiology and Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.

Shona Hislop Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Eric P. Hoffman Research Center for Genomic Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA.

John Holton Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, London, W1T 4JF, UK.

Leroy Hood The Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 98103-8904, USA.

Andrew T. Huang Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taiwan.

Erich S. Huang Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.

Carlos A. Hubbard Southern Medical Group, Tallahassee, FL 32308, USA.

Kent Hunter CCR/NCI/NIH, Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4264, USA.

Courtney Hyland Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Chunhwa Ihm Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Olga Ilkayeva Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27704, USA.

Rafael Irizarry Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Shushant Jain Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies, University College London W1T 4JF, UK; Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.

Melissa D. Johnson Department of Medicine – Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Philip W. Kantoff Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Medical Oncology, Boston, MA, USA.

Sekar Kathiresan Massachusetts General Hospital, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Center, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.

Hasmeena Kathuria Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA.

Kensaku Kawamoto Division of Clinical Informatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Filip De Keyser Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.

Asif Khalid Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

Muin Khoury National Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA.

Stephen F. Kingsmore National Center for Genome Resources.

Michelle M. Kittleson Division of Cardiology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Beena T. Koshy Pharmacogenetics, GlaxoSmithKline, Durham, NC 27709, USA.

Ranga Krishnan Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Robert S. Krouse Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Tucson, AZ, USA .

Vikas Kundra Diagnostic Radiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Myla Lai-Goldman Laboratory Corporation of America, Holdings, Burlington, NC, USA.

Vipul Lakhani Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.

Robert Langer Weis Center for Research/Geisinger Clinic, Danville, PA 17822-2607, USA.

Sean E. Lawler Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Wiseman Hall Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

Inyoul Lee Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA .

Charles Lee Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Arthur S. Lee Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Stanely Leong Department of Surgery, UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Ralf Lesche Epigenomics, AG, Berlin, Germany. Samuel Levy J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.

Edison T. Liu Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore Tissue Network, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore.

David F. Lobach Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

James B. Lorens Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Aldons J. Lusis Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1679, USA.

H. Kim Lyerly Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA.

Nageswara R. Madamanchi Department of Medicine, Carolina Cardiovascular Biology Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7126, USA.

J. Alfredo Martinez Department of Physiology and Nutrition, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

Vega Masignani Novartis Vaccines, Siena, Italy.

Kevin McGrath Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

John McHutchison Department of Gastroenterology, Duke University Medical Center, Duke University Clinic Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA.

Frank Middleton Upstate Medical University, Washington VA Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.

Herman Mielants Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.

Michael J. Muehlbauer Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
27704, USA.

Ulf Müller-Ladner Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany.

Mark A. Nelson Department of Pathology, University of Airzona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.

Monica Neri Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy.

Mihai Netea Department of Medicine, University Medical Center St. Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

L. Kristin Newby Department of Medicine – Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Christopher B. Newgard Duke Independence Park Facility, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27704, USA.

Maggie Ng Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

Paul W. Noble Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3171, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Vasilis Ntziachristos Technical University of Munich, Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany.

Robert L. Nussbaum Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine & Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143

Meghan B. O’Donoghue Department of Chemistry, Shands Cancer Center and UF Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

Kunle Odunsi Departments of Gynecologic Oncology and Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Kenneth Olden Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2233, USA.

Steve R. Ommen Mayo Clinic, Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.

Jose M. Ordovas Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111-1524, USA.

Roberto Patarca E. M. Papper Lab of Clinical Immunology and Molecular Biology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160, USA.

Jeetendra Patel Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

K. Patel Department of Gastroenterology, Duke University Medical Center, Duke University Clinic Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA.

Carlos N. Pato Center for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Department of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

Michele T. Pato Center for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Department of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

Tanja Pejovic Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.

Noah C. Perin Tularik, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.

Michael Pham Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Robert M. Plenge Division of Rheumatology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Achim Plum Epigenomics, AG, Berlin, Germany. Mihai V. Podgoreanu Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Jonathan R. Pollack Department of Pathology, Stanford University, CA, USA.

Rebecca L. Pollex Robarts Research Institute, London, ONT, Canada.

Nathan D. Price Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL USA.

Thomas Quertermous Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Francisco J. Quintana Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

Benjamin A. Raby Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Center for Genomic Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA.

Daniel J. Rader University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6160, USA.

Sridhar Ramaswamy Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Hans-Georg Rammensee Interfakultares Institut fur Zellbiologie, Abt. Immunologie, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany.

Scott D. Ramsey Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

Rino Rappuoli Novartis Vaccines, Siena, Italy.

Nader Rifai Laboratory Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Lisa Rimsza Department of Pathology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724-5043, USA.

Yu-Hui Rogers J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20851, USA.

Allen D. Roses Deane Drug Discovery Institute, Duke University Medical Center, One Science Drive, Suite 342, Durham, NC 27708.

Jeffrey S. Ross Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Albany Medical College MC-80, Albany, NY 12208, USA.

Ronenn Roubenoff Immunology Medical Research, Biogen Idec, Inc.

Marschall S. Runge Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.

Maren T. Scheuner Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA.

Matthias Schuster Epigenomics, AG, Berlin, Germany.

David A. Schwartz Center for Genetics and Therapeutics, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, CO 80206

Debra A. Schwinn Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Chia Kee Seng Centre for Molecular Epidemilogy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Nicholas A. Shackel Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

M. Frances Shannon Division of Molecular Bioscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 Australia.

A. Dean Sherry Departments of Radiology and Internal Medicine, Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.

Jiaqi Shi Department of Pathology and the Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Kevin Shianna Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Yelizaveta Shnayder Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA.

Andrew B. Singleton Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Molecular Genetics Unit, NIH, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

T.P. Slavin Center for Human Genetics, University Hospitals Case Medical Center; Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Desmond J. Smith Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1735, USA.

Rikkert L. Snoeckx Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Ralph Snyderman Duke University, DUMC 3059, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Avrum Spira Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
Colin F. Spraggs Pharmacogenetics, GlaxoSmithKline, Durham, NC 27709, USA.

Robert D. Stevens Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27704, USA.

Nicolas A. Stewart SAIC Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA.

Alison Stewart Strangeways Research Laboratory, Public Health Genetics Unit, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK.

F. Stewart Weis Center for Research/Geisinger Clinic, Danville, PA 17822-2607, USA.

Robert L. Strausberg J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.

Moshe Szyf Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada.

Weihong Tan Department of Chemistry, Shands Cancer Center and UF Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

Robert I. Tepper Third Rock Ventures, LLC, Boston, MA 02116, USA.

Hervé Tettelin Novartis Vaccines, Siena, Italy.

Giovana R. Thomas Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.

John D. Thompson Newborn Screening Program, Washington State Department of Health, Shoreline, WA 98155, USA.

Visith Thongboonkerd Medical Molecular Biology Unit, Office for Research and Development, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkoknoi, Bangkok 10700, Thailand.

Eric J. Topol Scripps Clinic Division of Cardiovascular Disease, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

Jeffrey A. Towbin Pediatric Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Ad A. van Bodegraven Department of Gastroenterology, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Kris Van Den Bogaert Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Filip Van den Bosch Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.

Matte Vatta Departments of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.

Timothy D. Veenstra SAIC Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA.

David L. Veenstra Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

Aleksandr E. Vendrov Department of Medicine, Carolina Cardiovascular Biology Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7126, USA.

Catherine M. Verfaillie Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Nicole M. Walley Center for Population Genomics and Pharmacogenetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Ling Wang Department of Chemistry, Shands Cancer Center and UF Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

Mike Weale Statistical Genetics Unit, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King’s College London, Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 9RT, UK.

Michael E. Weinblatt Division of Rheumatology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Howard L. Weiner Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Scott T. Weiss Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Ralph Weissleder Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Samuel A. Wells Department of General Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA.

Brett R. Wenner Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27704, USA.

Ilse R. Wiechers Massachusetts General/McLean Hospital, Adult Psychiatry Residency Program, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

Georgia L. Wiesner School of Medicine – Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4955, USA.

Janey L. Wiggs Department of Opthalmology, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

Cisca Wijmenga Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Huntington F. Willard Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

James M. Wilson Gene Therapy Program, Translational Research Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3403, USA.

Nelson A. Wivel Gene Therapy Program, Translational Research Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3403, USA.

Jay Wohlgemuth Via Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Janet Woodcock Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD 20857, USA.

Christopher W. Woods Department of Medicine – Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA.

Paula W. Woon National Center for Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA .

Chana Yagil Department of Nephrology and Hypertension and Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Ben-Gurion University, Barzilai Medical Center Campus, Ashkelon, Israel.

Yoram Yagil Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Ben-Gurion University, Barzilai Medical Center Campus, Ashkelon, Israel.

Tadashi Yamamoto Department of Structural Pathology, Institute of Nephrology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata 951-8510, Japan.

Gang Yao Department of Chemistry, Shands Cancer Center and UF Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

Andrew J. Yee Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Hyuntae Yoo Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA.

Y. Nancy You Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.

Li-Rong Yu SAIC Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA.

Jean-François Zagury Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Chaire de Bioinformatique, 292, rue Saint-Martin, 75003 Paris.

Ron Zimmern Strangeways Research Laboratory, Public Health Genetics Unit, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK.

Stephan Züchner University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136.