About the Authors

Xunzhi Zhang

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

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

Ze Yu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Aundrea K. Westfall

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Children’s Medical Center Research Institute, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Kunyi Han

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

V. Vinod Mootha

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

Affiliations Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Chao Xing

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

chao.xing@utsouthwestern.edu

Affiliations Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, O’Donnell School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.