About the Authors

Diana X. Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Diana X. Zhou, Yinghong Zhao

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Yinghong Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Diana X. Zhou, Yinghong Zhao

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Jessica A. Baker

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Qingqing Gu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Kristin M. Hamre

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Junming Yue

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Byron C. Jones

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Melloni N. Cook

lulu@uthsc.edu (LL); Mcook1@memphis.edu (MC)

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Lu Lu

lulu@uthsc.edu (LL); Mcook1@memphis.edu (MC)

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DZ YZ MC LL. Data curation: KH MC LL. Formal analysis: DZ YZ LL. Funding acquisition: BJ LL. Investigation: KH MC YZ QG JY. Methodology: BJ LL. Project administration: LL MC. Resources: MC YZ LL. Software: LL. Supervision: LL BJ. Validation: JY QG LL. Visualization: DZ YZ LL. Writing – original draft: LL DZ YZ. Writing – review & editing: JB KH BJ MC.