About the Authors

Yan Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Guo, Quanhu Sheng

yan.guo@vanderbilt.edu (YG); Yu.Shyr@vanderbilt.edu (YS)

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Quanhu Sheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Guo, Quanhu Sheng

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jiang Li

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Fei Ye

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

David C. Samuels

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics Research, Dept. of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yu Shyr

yan.guo@vanderbilt.edu (YG); Yu.Shyr@vanderbilt.edu (YS)

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG YS. Analyzed the data: QS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FY DS JL. Wrote the paper: YG.