About the Authors

Brett A. McKinney

brett.mckinney@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

James E. Crowe Jr

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology, Program in Vaccine Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jingyu Guo

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Dehua Tian

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BAM. Performed the experiments: BAM JG DT. Analyzed the data: BAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JEC. Wrote the paper: BAM.