About the Authors

Sydney E. Manning

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacotherapy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, United States of America

Hung-Chih Ku

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Douglas F. Dluzen

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

Affiliation Department of Biology, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, MD, United States of America

Chao Xing

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zhengyang.zhou@unthsc.edu (ZZ); chao.xing@utsouthwestern.edu (CX)

Affiliation McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development and Department of Bioinformatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

Zhengyang Zhou

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zhengyang.zhou@unthsc.edu (ZZ); chao.xing@utsouthwestern.edu (CX)

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.