About the Authors

Lei Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Aaron J. Bonham

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Jian Li

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Yu-Fang Pei

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Jie Chen

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Christopher J. Papasian

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Hong-Wen Deng

dengh@umkc.edu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Center of System Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, College of Life Sciences and Engineering, Beijing Jiao Tong University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ HWD. Performed the experiments: LZ. Analyzed the data: LZ AJB YFP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJB JL YFP. Wrote the paper: LZ AJB JL YFP JC CJP HWD.