About the Authors

Rebeca Campos-Sánchez

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebeca Campos-Sánchez, Marzia A. Cremona

Current address: Centro de Investigación en Biología Celular y Molecular, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

Affiliation Genetics Graduate Program, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Marzia A. Cremona

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebeca Campos-Sánchez, Marzia A. Cremona

Affiliations MOX—Modeling and Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, Department of Statistics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alessia Pini

Affiliation MOX—Modeling and Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Francesca Chiaromonte

chiaro@stat.psu.edu (FC); kdm16@psu.edu (KDM)

Affiliations Department of Statistics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Medical Genomics, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kateryna D. Makova

chiaro@stat.psu.edu (FC); kdm16@psu.edu (KDM)

Affiliations Center for Medical Genomics, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RCS MAC FC KDM. Performed the experiments: RCS MAC. Analyzed the data: RCS MAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RCS MAC AP. Wrote the paper: RCS MAC AP FC KDM.