About the Authors

Ashutosh K. Pandey

apandey1@uthsc.edu

Affiliation UT Center for Integrative and Translational Genomics and Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Lu Lu

Affiliation UT Center for Integrative and Translational Genomics and Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Xusheng Wang

Affiliations UT Center for Integrative and Translational Genomics and Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Ramin Homayouni

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics Program, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Robert W. Williams

Affiliation UT Center for Integrative and Translational Genomics and Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

Co-author Dr. Ramin Homayouni is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. The authors confirm that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKP RH RWW. Performed the experiments: AKP LL. Analyzed the data: AKP XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL. Wrote the paper: AKP RWW.