About the Authors

Ming Hu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ke Deng

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhaohui Qin

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jesse Dixon

Affiliations Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Medical Scientist Training Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Siddarth Selvaraj

Affiliations Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jennifer Fang

Affiliation Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Bing Ren

Affiliations Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Genomic Medicine, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jun S. Liu

jliu@stat.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH KD ZQ JD SS JF BR JSL. Performed the experiments: MH KD JD SS. Analyzed the data: MH KD JD SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH KD JD SS JF. Wrote the paper: MH KD ZQ JSL.