About the Authors

Qunfeng Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Qunfeng Dong, David E. Nelson

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

David E. Nelson

Contributed equally to this work with: Qunfeng Dong, David E. Nelson

bvanderp@indiana.edu (BVDP); nelsonde@indiana.edu (DEN)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Evelyn Toh

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Lixia Diao

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiang Gao

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

J. Dennis Fortenberry

Affiliation Section of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Barbara Van Der Pol

bvanderp@indiana.edu (BVDP); nelsonde@indiana.edu (DEN)

Affiliations Indiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BVDP DEN QD JDF. Performed the experiments: DEN ET. Analyzed the data: QD DEN LD XG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DEN ET. Wrote the paper: QD DEN JDF BVDP. Critical review of manuscript: QD DEN ET LD XG JDF BVDP.