# Contributors

The FunGen-xQTL Computational Protocol is developed by the Analysis Working Group of
the NIA FunGen-xQTL consortium. This page acknowledges the people who built and
maintain it.


### Developers

**Lead developers**

- Hao Sun, Department of Neurology, Columbia University
- Gao Wang, Department of Neurology, Columbia University

**Main contributors** (largely based on GitHub Pull Requests)

| Name             | Affiliation                                                       |
|------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Xuanhe Chen      | Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University                  |
| Wenhao Gou       | Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University                  |
| Liucheng Shi     | Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University                  |
| Haochen Sun      | Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University                  |
| Zining Qi        | Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University                  |
| Yifei Wang       | Department of Neurology, Columbia University                      |
| Ru Feng          | Department of Neurology, Columbia University                      |
| Alexandre Pelletier| Department of Medicine, Boston University                        |
| Travyse Edwards  | Mount Sinai & University of Pennsylvania                           |
| Daniel Nachun    | Department of Pathology, Stanford University                      |
| Jiacheng Li      | Department of Neurology, Columbia University                      |
| Mintao Lin       | Department of Medicine, Boston University                         |

### Leadership

**FunGen-AD**

| Name             | Affiliation                                                       |
|------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Philip De Jager  | Department of Neurology, Columbia University                      |
| Carlos Cruchaga | Department of Psychiatry, Neurology and Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis|

**FunGen-xQTL Analysis Working Group**

| Name             | Affiliation                                                       |
|------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Gao Wang         | Department of Neurology, Columbia University                      |
| Xiaoling Zhang   | Departments of Medicine and Biostatistics, Boston University      |
| Edoardo Marcora  | Departments of Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Fanny Leung      | Department of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania |
| Julia TCW        | Department of Pharmacology and Bioinformatics, Boston University                         |
| Kushal K. Dey    | Memorial Sloan Kettering                                          |
| Alan Renton      | Departments of Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Stephen Montgomery | Department of Pathology, Stanford University                    |
| Xiaoquan Wen     | Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan               |

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New to the protocol? See [Environment Setup](https://statfungen.github.io/xqtl-protocol/xqtl_protocol_demo.html) to get running, or the [xQTL Analysis Workflow Builder](https://statfungen.github.io/xqtl-protocol/xqtl_protocol_workflow_builder.html) to find the pipelines for your study.