About the Authors

Xin Zeng

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Bo Li

Affiliation California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Rene Welch

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Constanza Rojo

‡ These authors contributed equally.

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Ye Zheng

‡ These authors contributed equally.

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Colin N. Dewey

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Sündüz Keleş

keles@stat.wisc.edu

Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived the study: SK. Conceived and designed the experiments: SK XZ CND. Performed the experiments: SK XZ BL RW. Analyzed the data: SK XZ RW CR YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RW BL CR YZ. Wrote the paper: SK XZ.