About the Authors

Dongjun Chung

chungd@musc.edu

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Hang J. Kim

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Hongyu Zhao

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DC HJK HZ. Formal analysis: DC HJK. Funding acquisition: DC HZ. Investigation: DC HJK. Methodology: DC HJK HZ. Project administration: DC. Software: HJK DC. Supervision: HZ. Validation: DC HJK. Visualization: DC HJK. Writing – original draft: DC HJK HZ. Writing – review & editing: DC HJK HZ.