About the Authors

Degui Zhi

dzhi@ms.soph.uab.edu (DZ); ruichen@bcm.edu (RC)

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Rui Chen

dzhi@ms.soph.uab.edu (DZ); ruichen@bcm.edu (RC)

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DZ RC. Performed the experiments: DZ. Analyzed the data: DZ RC. Wrote the paper: DZ RC.