About the Authors

Yuan Gao

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

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jeff Gaither

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Julia Chifman

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, American University, Washington D. C., United States of America

Laura Kubatko

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lkubatko@stat.osu.edu

Affiliations Dept of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.