About the Authors

Jinong Feng

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Guihua Sun

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America, Graduate School, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Jin Yan

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Katie Noltner

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Wenyan Li

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Carolyn H. Buzin

Affiliations Division of Molecular Genetics, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America, MEDomics, Azusa, California, United States of America

Jeff Longmate

Affiliation Division of Information Sciences, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Leonard L. Heston

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

John Rossi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Steve S. Sommer

ssommer@medomics.com

Affiliations Division of Molecular Genetics, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America, MEDomics, Azusa, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Steve S. Sommer, MD, PhD is currently the Chairman and Founder of MEDomics. However, all the laboratory work was carried out when he was Chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics at City of Hope, Duarte, CA. None of the funding came from MEDomics, nor did any of the data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or the original preparation of the manuscript. Some of the revision leading to the second submission of this manuscript was performed while CB and SS were at MEDomics.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SSS JF. Performed the experiments: GS JY KN WL JL. Analyzed the data: SSS JF GS JY KN WL JL LLH JJR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LLH JJR. Wrote the paper: SSS JF GS JY KN WL JL LLH JJR. Involved in writing and revising paper: CHB.