About the Authors

Zhuo Song

Affiliation Center for Human Genetic Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yang Cao

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

David C. Samuels

david.samuels@chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Center for Human Genetic Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZS DCS. Performed the experiments: ZS. Analyzed the data: ZS DCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YC. Wrote the paper: ZS DCS. Algorithm design: YC Software: ZS.