About the Authors

Yafang Li

Affiliation Department of Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jian Huang

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Christopher I. Amos

Christopher.I.Amos@Dartmouth.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel College of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YFL JH CA. Performed the experiments: YFL. Analyzed the data: YFL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CA. Wrote the paper: YFL CA.