About the Authors

Caiyan Jia

cyjia@bjtu.edu.cn (CJ); huilu.bioinfo@gmail.com (HL)

Affiliations School of Computer and Information Technology & Beijing Key Lab of Traffic Data Analysis, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, Department of Bioengineering/Bioinformatics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Matthew B. Carson

Affiliations Center for Healthcare Studies, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yang Wang

Affiliation School of Computer and Information Technology & Beijing Key Lab of Traffic Data Analysis, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

Youfang Lin

Affiliation School of Computer and Information Technology & Beijing Key Lab of Traffic Data Analysis, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

Hui Lu

cyjia@bjtu.edu.cn (CJ); huilu.bioinfo@gmail.com (HL)

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering/Bioinformatics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children’s Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJ YW. Performed the experiments: CJ YW. Analyzed the data: CJ MBC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL HL. Wrote the paper: CJ MBC.