About the Authors

Rui-Jun Su

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui-Jun Su, Yadong Yang

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America, Division of Anatomy, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America, Center for Health Disparities and Molecular Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Yadong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui-Jun Su, Yadong Yang

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Amanda Neises

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Kimberly J. Payne

Affiliations Division of Anatomy, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America, Center for Health Disparities and Molecular Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Jasmin Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Kasthuribai Viswanathan

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Genomics Core Facility, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Edward K. Wakeland

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Genomics Core Facility, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Xiangdong Fang

xzhang@llu.edu (XZ); fangxd@big.ac.cn (XF)

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiao-Bing Zhang

xzhang@llu.edu (XZ); fangxd@big.ac.cn (XF)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XBZ XF. Performed the experiments: RJS AN JW XBZ. Analyzed the data: YY KV EKW XF KJP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KJP. Wrote the paper: XBZ.