About the Authors

Hui Zhang

hui.zhang@stjude.org

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Jeanne Holden-Wiltse

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Jiong Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Hua Liang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ HL. Performed the experiments: HZ JW HL. Analyzed the data: HZ HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ HL. Wrote the paper: HZ JHW HL.