About the Authors

Chun Xu

chun.xu@ttuhsc.edu (CX); wangk@etsu.edu (KW)

Affiliation Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry/Neurology and the Center of Excellence in Neuroscience, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Nagesh Aragam

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennesee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Xia Li

Affiliation College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People’s Republic of China

Erika Cynthia Villla

Affiliation University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Liang Wang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennesee, United States of America

David Briones

Affiliation Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry/Neurology and the Center of Excellence in Neuroscience, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Leonora Petty

Affiliation Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry/Neurology and the Center of Excellence in Neuroscience, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Yolanda Posada

Affiliation Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Tania Bedard Arana

Affiliation Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry/Neurology and the Center of Excellence in Neuroscience, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Grace Cruz

Affiliation Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry/Neurology and the Center of Excellence in Neuroscience, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

ChunXiang Mao

Affiliation University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Cynthia Camarillo

Affiliation Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry/Neurology and the Center of Excellence in Neuroscience, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Brenda Bin Su

Affiliation University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Michael A. Escamilla

Affiliation Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry/Neurology and the Center of Excellence in Neuroscience, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

KeSheng Wang

chun.xu@ttuhsc.edu (CX); wangk@etsu.edu (KW)

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennesee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Provided comments on clinical phenotypes: DB LP. Final approval of the version: BBS MAE DB LP XL ECV TBA GC CXM CC. Clinical phenotype assessment: MAE. Conceived and designed the experiments: CX NA KSW. Analyzed the data: BBS CX XL ECV LW YP TBA GC CXM KSW. Wrote the paper: CX NA LW KSW.