About the Authors

Bhupendra Singh

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Kjerstin M. Owens

Affiliation Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, United States of America

Prachi Bajpai

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Mohamed Mokhtar Desouki

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Vinodh Srinivasasainagendra

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Hemant K. Tiwari

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Keshav K. Singh

kksingh@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Center for Free Radical Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Center for Aging, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, 35294, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS KKS. Performed the experiments: BS KMO PB MMD. Analyzed the data: BS KMO PB VS HKT KKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VS HKT. Wrote the paper: BS PB KKS.