About the Authors

Cathleen M. Green

Contributed equally to this work with: Cathleen M. Green, Zhong Li

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

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and RNA Institute, University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Zhong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Cathleen M. Green, Zhong Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Aaron D. Smith

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

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Olga Novikova

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and RNA Institute, University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Valjean R. Bacot-Davis

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and RNA Institute, University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Fengshan Gao

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Saiyang Hu

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Nilesh K. Banavali

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Dennis J. Thiele

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Hongmin Li

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

mbelfort@albany.edu (MB); hongmin.li@health.ny.gov (HL)

Affiliations Division of Genetics, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Marlene Belfort

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mbelfort@albany.edu (MB); hongmin.li@health.ny.gov (HL)

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences and RNA Institute, University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.