About the Authors

Yanting Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanting Luo, Jianlin He

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jianlin He

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanting Luo, Jianlin He

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Epigenomics and Computational Biology Lab, Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States of America

Xiguang Xu

Roles Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Epigenomics and Computational Biology Lab, Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States of America

Ming-an Sun

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaowei Wu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States of America

Xuemei Lu

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

luxm@big.ac.cn (XL); davidxie@vt.edu (HX)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hehuang Xie

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

luxm@big.ac.cn (XL); davidxie@vt.edu (HX)

Affiliations Epigenomics and Computational Biology Lab, Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.