Younji Nam 1, Brooke A DeRosa 1, Aura M Ramirez 1, Biniyam A Ayele 1 2, Patrice Whitehead-Gay 1, Larry D Adams 1, Charles G Golightly 1, Takiyah D Starks 3, Mayra Juliana Laverde-Paz 1 4, Holly N Cukier 1 5, Rufus Akinyemi 6, Fred Sarfo 7, Albert Akpalu 8, Michael L Cuccaro 1 5, Scott M Williams 9, Allison Caban-Holt 3, Christiane Reitz 10, Jonathan L Haines 9, Goldie S Byrd 3, Farid Rajabli 1 5, Derek M Dykxhoorn 1 5, Juan I Young 1 5, Jeffery M Vance 1 5, Margaret A Pericak-Vance 1 5 *
1John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
2Department of Neurology, Addis Ababa University School of Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
3Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
4Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
5Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Forida, USA.
6Neuroscience and Ageing Research Unit, Institute for Advanced Medical Research & Training, University of Ibadan College of Medicine, Ibadan, Nigeria.
7Department of Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
8Department of Medicine, University of Ghana Medical School/Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
9Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
10Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Taub Institute for Research on the Aging Brain, Departments of Neurology, and Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
*Corresponding author: correspondence to Margaret A Pericak-Vance