About the Authors

Timothy D. Howard

tdhoward@wfubmc.edu

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Shuk-Mei Ho

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Cincinnati Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Li Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Jing Chen

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Wei Cui

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Rebecca Slager

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Stanton Gray

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Gregory A. Hawkins

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Mario Medvedovic

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Janice D. Wagner

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDW TDH. Performed the experiments: TDH LZ WC SG GAH JDW. Analyzed the data: TDH SMH JC RS SG MM. Wrote the paper: TDH JDW.