About the Authors

Ansley Stanfill

Contributed equally to this work with: Ansley Stanfill, Donna Hathaway, Yvette Conley

Stanfill@pitt.edu

Affiliation Health Promotion and Development, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Donna Hathaway

Contributed equally to this work with: Ansley Stanfill, Donna Hathaway, Yvette Conley

Affiliation College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Ann Cashion

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Institute of Nursing Research, National Insitutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ramin Homayouni

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Bioinformatics, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Patricia Cowan

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Carol Thompson

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Behrouz Madahian

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Bioinformatics, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Yvette Conley

Contributed equally to this work with: Ansley Stanfill, Donna Hathaway, Yvette Conley

Affiliation Health Promotion and Development, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS DH AC RH PC CT BM YC. Performed the experiments: AS. Analyzed the data: AS BM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS DH RH BM YC. Wrote the paper: AS DH AC RH PC CT BM YC.