About the Authors

Nibiao Zheng

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Christopher C. Whalen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Andreas Handel

ahandel@uga.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NZ CW AH. Performed the experiments: NZ AH. Analyzed the data: NZ AH. Wrote the paper: NZ CW AH.