Rare Variant Association Testing for Sequencing Data Using the Sequence Kernel Association Test ( SKAT )

*These authors contributed equally to this work. 1 Department of Biostatistics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA 2 Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA 3 Department of Genetics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA 4 Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

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