About the Authors

Hui-Yi Lin

Hui-Yi.Lin@moffitt.org (HYL); Jong.Park@moffitt.org (JYP)

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Ernest K. Amankwah

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Tung-Sung Tseng

Affiliation Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Xiaotao Qu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Dung-Tsa Chen

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Jong Y. Park

Hui-Yi.Lin@moffitt.org (HYL); Jong.Park@moffitt.org (JYP)

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYL TST DTC JYP. Performed the experiments: HYL XQ. Analyzed the data: HYL XQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EKA JYP. Wrote the paper: HYL EKA JYP.