About the Authors

Yunxian Liu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Ninad M. Walavalkar

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Mikhail G. Dozmorov

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Stephen S. Rich

Affiliation Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Mete Civelek

Affiliations Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United Statess of America

Michael J. Guertin

guertin@virginia.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YL MJG. Data curation: YL MJG. Formal analysis: YL MJG. Funding acquisition: YL MJG. Investigation: YL NMW MJG. Methodology: YL MJG. Project administration: YL MGD SSR MC MJG. Resources: MJG. Software: YL MJG. Supervision: MJG. Validation: YL. Visualization: YL MJG. Writing – original draft: YL MJG. Writing – review & editing: YL NMW MGD SSR MC MJG.