About the Authors

Sang Y. Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang Y. Lee, Junjia Zhu, Anna C. Salzberg

SYL3@psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Junjia Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang Y. Lee, Junjia Zhu, Anna C. Salzberg

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Anna C. Salzberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang Y. Lee, Junjia Zhu, Anna C. Salzberg

Affiliation Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bo Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dajiang J. Liu

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joshua E. Muscat

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sara T. Langan

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

James R. Connor

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SYL. Formal analysis: SYL JZ ACS BZ DJL. Funding acquisition: JRC. Investigation: SYL JZ ACS BZ DJL. Methodology: SYL ACS. Project administration: SYL. Resources: JZ ACS BZ DJL. Visualization: SYL JZ BZ. Writing – original draft: SYL JZ ACS. Writing – review & editing: SYL JZ ACS BZ DJL JEM STL JRC.