About the Authors

Lihui Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lihui Liu, Hui Chen

Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Hui Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Lihui Liu, Hui Chen

Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Matthew B. Brecher

Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Zhong Li

Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Bo Wei

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Bisweswar Nandi

Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Jing Zhang

Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Hua Ling

Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Gary Winslow

Current address: Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America.

Affiliations Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany, New York, United States of America

Jonathan Braun

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hongmin Li

lih@wadsworth.org

Affiliations Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL HC ZL BW BN JZ HLin GW JB HLi. Performed the experiments: LL HC MBB ZL BW BN JZ HLi. Analyzed the data: LL HC MBB BW BN GW JB HLi. Wrote the paper: LL HC BW BN GW JB HLi.