About the Authors
- Meinan Chen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Meinan Chen, Yanhua Rao
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- Yanhua Rao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Meinan Chen, Yanhua Rao
Affiliation Jiangxia Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Wuhan, China
- Yi Zheng
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- Shiqing Wei
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- Ye Li
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- Tong Guo
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Affiliation WuXiPRA Clinical Research (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China
- Ping Yin
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* E-mail: ping_y2000@163.com
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Competing Interests
Author Tong Guo is employed by a commercial company, WuXiPRA Clinical Research (Shanghai) Co.,Ltd., but this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MNC YHR PY. Performed the experiments: MNC YZ TG. Analyzed the data: MNC YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MNC SQW. Wrote the paper: MNC TG.