About the Authors

Yafei Lyu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Genomics, the Huck Institute of the Life Science, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lingzhou Xue

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Feipeng Zhang

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hillary Koch

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Laura Saba

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Katerina Kechris

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Qunhua Li

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

qunhua.li@psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.