About the Authors
- Ashok Sharma
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ashok Sharma, Shoshana M. Bartell
Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
- Shoshana M. Bartell
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ashok Sharma, Shoshana M. Bartell
Affiliation Animal & Dairy Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Clifton A. Baile
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Affiliation Animal & Dairy Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Bo Chen
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Affiliation Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
- Robert H. Podolsky
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Affiliations Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
- Richard A. McIndoe
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Affiliations Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
- Jin-Xiong She
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* E-mail: jshe@mail.mcg.edu
Affiliations Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SMB CAB JXS. Performed the experiments: SMB BC. Analyzed the data: AS RHP RAM JXS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAB RAM JXS. Wrote the paper: AS JXS. Wrote algorithms for data processing and statistical analysis: AS RHP. Involved in useful critical discussion at all stages of the manuscript preparation as supervisor of AS: RAM.