About the Authors

Pheruza Tarapore

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

Jun Ying

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Ying, Bin Ouyang

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

Bin Ouyang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Ying, Bin Ouyang

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

Barbara Burke

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Bruce Bracken

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Shuk-Mei Ho

shuk-mei.ho@uc.edu

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Cincinnati Cancer Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Cincinnati Veteran Affairs Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PT BO SMH. Performed the experiments: PT BO SMH. Analyzed the data: PT JY BO SMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB BB PT SMH. Wrote the paper: PT BO JY SMH.