About the Authors

Con Sullivan

Contributed equally to this work with: Con Sullivan, Youhong Liu

Affiliations Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health, Brewer, Maine, United States of America, The University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Youhong Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Con Sullivan, Youhong Liu

Affiliations Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health, Brewer, Maine, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China

Jingjing Shen

Affiliation Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health, Brewer, Maine, United States of America

Adam Curtis

Affiliation Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health, Brewer, Maine, United States of America

Christina Newman

Affiliation Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health, Brewer, Maine, United States of America

Janet M. Hock

Affiliation Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health, Brewer, Maine, United States of America

Xiong Li

xiolijob@gmail.com

Affiliations Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health, Brewer, Maine, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XL CS. Performed the experiments: XL CS YL JS AC CN. Analyzed the data: XL CS YL JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC CN. Wrote the paper: XL CS.