About the Authors

Shan-Lin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shan-Lin Liu, Shu-Feng Lei

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics and the Key Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Developmental Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China

Shu-Feng Lei

Contributed equally to this work with: Shan-Lin Liu, Shu-Feng Lei

hdeng2@tulane.edu (H-WD); lei@hunnu.edu.cn (S-FL)

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics and the Key Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Developmental Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China

Fang Yang

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics and the Key Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Developmental Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China

Xi Li

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics and the Key Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Developmental Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China

Rong Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics and the Key Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Developmental Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China

Shan Nie

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics and the Key Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Developmental Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China

Xiao-Gang Liu

Affiliation School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shanxi, People's Republic of China

Tie-Lin Yang

Affiliation School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shanxi, People's Republic of China

Yan Guo

Affiliation School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shanxi, People's Republic of China

Fei-Yan Deng

Affiliation Center of Bioinformatics and Genomics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Qing Tian

Affiliation Center of Bioinformatics and Genomics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Jian Li

Affiliation Center of Bioinformatics and Genomics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Yao-Zhong Liu

Affiliation Center of Bioinformatics and Genomics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Yong-Jun Liu

Affiliation Center of Bioinformatics and Genomics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Hui Shen

Affiliations Center of Bioinformatics and Genomics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shanxi, People's Republic of China

Hong-Wen Deng

hdeng2@tulane.edu (H-WD); lei@hunnu.edu.cn (S-FL)

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics and the Key Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Developmental Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China, Center of Bioinformatics and Genomics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shanxi, People's Republic of China, Center of Systematic Biomedical Research, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: S-L. Liu S-F. Lei H-WD. Performed the experiments: X. Li X-G. Liu Yong-Jun Liu. Analyzed the data: F. Yang RL T-LY YG F-Y. Deng. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QT JL Yao-Zhong Liu HS. Wrote the paper: S-L. Liu S-F. Lei. Sample recruitment: SN.