About the Authors

Shui Ying Tsang

Affiliation Division of Life Science and Applied Genomics Laboratory, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

Songfa Zhong

Affiliations Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Rep. of Singapore

Lingling Mei

Affiliation Division of Life Science and Applied Genomics Laboratory, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

Jianhuan Chen

Affiliation Division of Life Science and Applied Genomics Laboratory, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

Siu-Kin Ng

Affiliation Division of Life Science and Applied Genomics Laboratory, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

Frank W. Pun

Affiliations Division of Life Science and Applied Genomics Laboratory, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China, Center for Statistical Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

Cunyou Zhao

Affiliation Division of Life Science and Applied Genomics Laboratory, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

Bingyi Jing

Affiliations Center for Statistical Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

Robin Chark

Affiliation Department of Marketing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Rep. of Singapore

Jianhua Guo

Affiliation School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Yunlong Tan

Affiliation Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, Beijing, China

Lijun Li

Affiliation Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Chuanyue Wang

Affiliation Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Soo Hong Chew

Affiliations Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Rep. of Singapore

Hong Xue

hxue@ust.hk

Affiliations Division of Life Science and Applied Genomics Laboratory, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China, Center for Statistical Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Provided DNA samples: YT LL CW. Conceived and designed the experiments: SYT SHC HX. Performed the experiments: SZ LM JC CZ. Analyzed the data: SYT SKN FP RC JG BJ. Wrote the paper: SYT HX.