About the Authors

George K. Acquaah-Mensah

Contributed equally to this work with: George K. Acquaah-Mensah, Deepti Malhotra

george.acquaah-mensah@mcphs.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Deepti Malhotra

Contributed equally to this work with: George K. Acquaah-Mensah, Deepti Malhotra

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Genetic Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Madhulika Vulimiri

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jason E. McDermott

Affiliation Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Shyam Biswal

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GKAM DM SB. Performed the experiments: GKAM DM MV JEM. Analyzed the data: GKAM DM JEM SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GKAM JEM SB. Wrote the paper: GKAM DM JEM SB.