About the Authors

James N. Mubiru

jmubiru@txbiomed.org

Affiliation Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Alice S. Yang

Affiliation Department of Biology, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Christian Olsen

Affiliation Biomatters Inc., Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Sudhir Nayak

Affiliation Department of Biology, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey, United States of America

Carolina B. Livi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Edward J. Dick Jr

Affiliation Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Michael Owston

Affiliation Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Magdalena Garcia-Forey

Affiliation Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Robert E. Shade

Affiliation Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey Rogers

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

Christian Olsen, one of the authors is employed by a commercial company Biomatters, Inc. as a Field Application Scientist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JNM JR RES EJD MO. Performed the experiments: JNM ASY CBL MGF MO EJD. Analyzed the data: JNM CO CBL JR RES SN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CO CBL JR RES SN. Wrote the paper: JNM JR CO SN. Obtained the software to run analysis: SN CBL CO.