About the Authors

Gourab De

gde@post.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wai-Ki Yip

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Iuliana Ionita-Laza

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Nan Laird

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GD II-L NL. Performed the experiments: GD. Analyzed the data: W-KY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: W-KY II-L. Wrote the paper: GD NL.