About the Authors

Sirarat Sarntivijai

Affiliations National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Zuoshuang Xiang

Affiliations Unit of Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Kerby A. Shedden

Affiliation Biostatistics Department, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Howard Markel

Affiliation Center for the History of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Gilbert S. Omenn

Affiliations National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Departments of Internal Medicine and Human Genetics, and School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Brian D. Athey

yongqunh@umich.edu (YH); bleu@umich.edu (BDA)

Affiliations National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Yongqun He

yongqunh@umich.edu (YH); bleu@umich.edu (BDA)

Affiliations National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Unit of Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS HM GSO BDA YH. Performed the experiments: SS ZX YH. Analyzed the data: SS ZX KAS YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS ZX YH. Wrote the paper: SS YH.