About the Authors

Erik Andrews

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Yue Wang

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Tian Xia

Affiliation School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Wenqing Cheng

Affiliation School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Chao Cheng

chao.cheng@dartmouth.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC EA YW. Analyzed the data: TX WC. Wrote the paper: EA YW CC. Designed the R package used in analysis: YW CC.