About the Authors

Jie Wang

Affiliation The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shuli Xia

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Brian Arand

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Heng Zhu

Affiliations The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for High-Throughput Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Raghu Machiraju

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Kun Huang

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Hongkai Ji

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

Jiang Qian

jiang.qian@jhmi.edu

Affiliations The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: JW. Wrote the paper: JW JQ. Conceived the project: JW JQ. Contributed to data analysis and revised the paper: SX BA HZ RM KH HJ.