About the Authors

Tie-Lin Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Yan Guo

guoyan253@xjtu.edu.cn (YG); hdeng2@tulane.edu (H-WD)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Hui Shen

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Shu-Feng Lei

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Yong-Jun Liu

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Jian Li

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Yao-Zhong Liu

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Na Yu

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Jia Chen

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Ting Xu

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Yu Cheng

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Qing Tian

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Ping Yu

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Christopher J. Papasian

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Hong-Wen Deng

guoyan253@xjtu.edu.cn (YG); hdeng2@tulane.edu (H-WD)

Affiliations School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: H-WD T-LY. Performed the experiments: HS S-FL NY JC TX YC PY. Analyzed the data: T-LY YG JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS Y-JL Y-ZL QT. Wrote the paper: T-LY CJP.