About the Authors

Lei Zhang

Affiliations Center of System Biomedical Sciences, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Yu-Fang Pei

Affiliations Center of System Biomedical Sciences, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Jian Li

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Christopher J. Papasian

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Hong-Wen Deng

dengh@umkc.edu

Affiliations Center of System Biomedical Sciences, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, College of Life Sciences and Engineering, Beijing Jiao Tong University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HWD. Performed the experiments: LZ. Analyzed the data: LZ YFP. Wrote the paper: LZ YFP JL CP HWD.