About the Authors
- Xia Jiang
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* E-mail: xij6@pitt.edu
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- M. Michael Barmada
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Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Gregory F. Cooper
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Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Michael J. Becich
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: XJ. Performed the experiments: XJ. Analyzed the data: XJ GFC MMB MJB. Wrote the paper: XJ. All authors met with XJ weekly while she conducted the experiments and offered critical evaluation. Critically revised the manuscript for intellectual content concerning Bayesian networks and other areas: GFC. Critically revised the manuscript for intellectual content concerning genetics and other areas: MMB. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.