About the Authors

Xinge Jessie Jeng

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinge Jessie Jeng, Zhongyin John Daye

Affiliation Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Zhongyin John Daye

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinge Jessie Jeng, Zhongyin John Daye

Affiliation Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Wenbin Lu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Jung-Ying Tzeng

jytzeng@stat.ncsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Statistics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XJJ ZJD WL JYT. Performed the experiments: XJJ ZJD JYT. Analyzed the data: XJJ ZJD JYT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XJJ ZJD JYT. Wrote the paper: XJJ ZJD WL JYT.