About the Authors

Matthew J. Loza

Affiliation Center for Human Genomics, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Charles E. McCall

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Liwu Li

Affiliation Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

William B. Isaacs

Affiliations Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jianfeng Xu

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jxu@wfubmc.edu (JX); bchang@wfubmc.edu (BC)

Affiliation Center for Human Genomics, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Bao-Li Chang

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jxu@wfubmc.edu (JX); bchang@wfubmc.edu (BC)

Affiliation Center for Human Genomics, Department of Pediatric Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JX BC ML. Analyzed the data: BC ML. Wrote the paper: BC ML. Other: Contributed to compilation of data: JX WI LL CM ML BC.