About the Authors

Rong Lu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Shaoping Wu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Xingyin Liu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Yinglin Xia

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Yong-guo Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Jun Sun

jun_sun@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Wilmot Cancer Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL SW XL YX YgZ JS. Performed the experiments: RL SW XL YgZ JS. Analyzed the data: RL SW XL YX JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS. Wrote the paper: RL YX JS.