About the Authors

Iris Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Iris Chen, Yogeshwar D. Kelkar

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: Global Biostatistical Science, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, United States of America

Yogeshwar D. Kelkar

Contributed equally to this work with: Iris Chen, Yogeshwar D. Kelkar

Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, United States of America

Yu Gu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, United States of America

Jie Zhou

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Xidian University, Xian, Shanxi 71007, China

Xing Qiu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

xing_qiu@urmc.rochester.edu (XQ); Hulin.Wu@uth.tmc.edu (HW)

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, United States of America

Hulin Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

xing_qiu@urmc.rochester.edu (XQ); Hulin.Wu@uth.tmc.edu (HW)

Current address: Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.