The Complex Trait Consortium: Gary A Churchill1, David C Airey2, Hooman Allayee3, Joe M Angel4, Alan D Attie5, Jackson Beatty6, William D Beavis7, John K Belknap8, Beth Bennett9, Wade Berrettini10, Andre Bleich11, Molly Bogue1, Karl W Broman12, Kari J Buck13, Ed Buckler14, Margit Burmeister15, Elissa J Chesler16, James M Cheverud17, Steven Clapcote18, Melloni N Cook19, Roger D Cox20, John C Crabbe21, Wim E Crusio22, Ariel Darvasi23, Christian F Deschepper24, R W Doerge25, Charles R Farber26, Jiri Forejt27, Daniel Gaile28, Steven J Garlow29, Hartmut Geiger30, Howard Gershenfeld31, Terry Gordon32, Jing Gu16, Weikuan Gu33, Gerald de Haan34, Nancy L Hayes35, Craig Heller36, Heinz Himmelbauer37, Robert Hitzemann13, Kent Hunter38, Hui-Chen Hsu39, Fuad A Iraqi40, Boris Ivandic41, Howard J Jacob42, Ritsert C Jansen43, Karl J Jepsen44, Dabney K Johnson45, Thomas E Johnson9, Gerd Kempermann46, Christina Kendziorski47, Malak Kotb48, R Frank Kooy49, Bastien Llamas24, Frank Lammert50, Jean-Michel Lassalle51, Pedro R Lowenstein52, Lu Lu16, Aldons Lusis53, Kenneth F Manly54, Ralph Marcucio55, Doug Matthews19, Juan F Medrano26, Darla R Miller56, Guy Mittleman19, Beverly A Mock57, Jeffrey S Mogil58, Xavier Montagutelli59, Grant Morahan60, David G Morris61, Richard Mott62, Joseph H Nadeau63, Hiroki Nagase64, Richard S Nowakowski35, Bruce F O'Hara65, Alexander V Osadchuk66, Grier P Page67, Beverly Paigen1, Kenneth Paigen1, Abraham A Palmer68, Huei-Ju Pan1, Leena Peltonen-Palotie69, 70, Jeremy Peirce16, Daniel Pomp71, Michal Pravenec72, Daniel R Prows73, Zhonghua Qi74, Roger H Reeves75, John Roder76, Glenn D Rosen77, Eric E Schadt78, Leonard C Schalkwyk79, Ze'ev Seltzer80, Kazuhiro Shimomura81, Siming Shou82, Mikko J. Sillanpää83, Linda D Siracusa84, Hans-Willem Snoeck85, Jimmy L Spearow86, Karen Svenson1, Lisa M Tarantino87, David Threadgill88, Linda A Toth89, William Valdar62, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena88, Craig Warden90, Steve Whatley91, Robert W Williams16, Tim Wiltshire87, Nengjun Yi67, Dabao Zhang92, Min Zhang93
& Fei Zou941
The Jackson Laboratory, 600 Main Street Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA.
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Vanderbilt University, Department of Pharmacology, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Science Park-Research Division, Smithville, Texas, USA.
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Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
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Department of Psychology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
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VA Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Institute for Laboratory Animal Science and Central Animal Facility, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
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Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Oregon Health & Science University and VA Medical Center, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
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Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
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University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
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Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
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Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Psychology Department, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
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Diabetes, QTL and Modifier Loci Group, MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK.
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Oregon Health & Science University, VA Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
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The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Evolution Systematics and Ecology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
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Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montréal, Canada.
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Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
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Department of Animal Science, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, USA.
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Institute of Molecular Genetics, ASCR, Videnska, Czech Republic.
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Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Health Professions, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Division of Experimental Hematology, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
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The University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, USA.
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Department of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Tuxedo, New York, USA.
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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery-Campbell Clinic & Department of Pathology, Center of Genomic and Bioinformatics & Center of Disease of Connective Tissues, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
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Department of Stem Cell Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
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Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
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Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany.
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National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
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Genetics of Disease Resistance (GDR), Delivery of Genetic Change-Biotechnology Theme, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya.
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Dept of Medicine III, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Physiology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
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Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Mathematics and Computing Science (IWI), Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Department of Orthopaedics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA.
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Mammalian Genetics Group, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
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Department of Experimental Neurology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany.
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Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin − Madison, Medical Sciences Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
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Departments of Surgery and Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee, Health Science Center, Memphis Tennessee, USA.
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Deprtment of Medical Genetics, University Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
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Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
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Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
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Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Departments of Medicine and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Departments of Medicine, MIMG, and Human Genetics, Center for Health Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee, Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
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University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, San Francisco, California, USA.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
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National Cancer Institute, CCR, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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Department of Psychology and Center for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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Unite de Genetique des Mammiferes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
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Diabetes Research Centre, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, Perth, Australia.
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Yale University School of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK.
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Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
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Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA.
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University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
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Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia.
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Section on Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
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Columbia Genome Center, New York, New York, USA.
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Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute, Biomedicum Helsinki, Finland.
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David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Department of Animal Science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
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Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital Medical Center and The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
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Division of Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Physiology and McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC/Merck & Co., Research Genetics, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
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Pain Genetics and Phenomics Research Unit, University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain, and Program in Neuroscience, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Center for Functional Genomics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
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Shriners Hospital, Research Center, Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Rolf Nevanlinna Institute, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Department of Cell and Gene Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
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Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, USA.
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The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, USA.
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Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
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Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA.
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Genetics and Physiology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.
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Department Neuroscience, KCL Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
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University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA.
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Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
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Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Correspondence should be addressed to Gary A Churchill garyc@jax.org
