William K. Scott, PhD, is Professor at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine where he teaches design and analysis of human genomic studies. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles on the genetic epidemiology of complex traits.

Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the Center for Translational Bioinformatics in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics. She has authored over 350 peer-reviewed articles on statistical genetics, translational bioinformatics and biomedical informatics.