About the Authors

Qingchao Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingchao Qiu, Pengcheng Lu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Cancer Research Institute and Human Morphology Center, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

Pengcheng Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingchao Qiu, Pengcheng Lu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yuzhu Xiang

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Minimally Invasive Urology Center, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Yu Shyr

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Xi Chen

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Brian David Lehmann

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Daniel Joseph Viox

Affiliation Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alfred L. George Jr.

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Institute for Integrative Genomics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yajun Yi

yajun.yi@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Institute for Integrative Genomics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS ALG YY. Performed the experiments: QQ PL YX BDL DJV YY. Analyzed the data: QQ PL YS XC BDL ALG YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QQ PL YS DJV YY. Wrote the paper: QQ PL YX YS ALG XC BDL DJV YY.