About the Authors

Francisco Javier Sánchez-Martín

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health and Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yunxia Fan

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health and Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Diana M. Lindquist

Affiliation Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ying Xia

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health and Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Alvaro Puga

Alvaro.Puga@uc.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health and Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP YX DML. Performed the experiments: FJSM DML YF. Analyzed the data: FJSM YX AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX. Wrote the manuscript: FJSM AP.