About the Authors

Hongmei Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongmei Jiang, Lingling An

hongmei@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Lingling An

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongmei Jiang, Lingling An

Affiliations Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Program in Statistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Simon M. Lin

Affiliations Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Gang Feng

Affiliation Biomedical Informatics Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yuqing Qiu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJ. Performed the experiments: HJ LA. Analyzed the data: HJ LA YQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL GF. Wrote the paper: HJ.