About the Authors

Xueya Cai

xueya_cai@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Yue Li

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC YL. Performed the experiments: XC. Analyzed the data: XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC YL. Wrote the paper: XC YL.