About the Authors

Changxing Ma

cxma@buffalo.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214, USA

Guogen Shan

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA

Song Liu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM GS. Performed the experiments: CM. Analyzed the data: CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM GS. Wrote the paper: CM GS SL.