About the Authors

Jing Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Chen, Zhen Hu, Mukta Phatak

Affiliation Laboratory for Statistical Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Zhen Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Chen, Zhen Hu, Mukta Phatak

Affiliation Laboratory for Statistical Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Mukta Phatak

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Chen, Zhen Hu, Mukta Phatak

Affiliation Laboratory for Statistical Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

John Reichard

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA), Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Johannes M. Freudenberg

Current address: Computational Biology, Quantitative Sciences, Medicines Discovery and Development, GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America.

Affiliation Laboratory for Statistical Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Siva Sivaganesan

Affiliation Mathematical Sciences Department, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Mario Medvedovic

medvedm@ucmail.uc.edu

Affiliation Laboratory for Statistical Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM. Performed the experiments: JC ZH MP JMF MM. Analyzed the data: JC ZH MP JR JMF MM. Wrote the paper: JC MP JR SS MM. Development of statistical models: JC ZH SS MM.