About the Authors

Wensheng Liu

Affiliation Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Center, Department of Pediatrics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Susan S. Baker

Affiliation Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Center, Department of Pediatrics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Robert D. Baker

Affiliation Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Center, Department of Pediatrics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Norma J. Nowak

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Microarray and Genomics Facility, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Lixin Zhu

lixinzhu@buffalo.edu

Affiliation Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Center, Department of Pediatrics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ WL. Performed the experiments: WL SB RB NN LZ. Analyzed the data: WL LZ SB RB NN. Wrote the paper: WL LZ SB RB NN.