About the Authors
- Lu Zhang
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Affiliation Epidemiology Program, School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Zhenzhen Zhang
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
- Yurong Zhang
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Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shanxi, China
- Gang Hu
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Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
- Liwei Chen
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* E-mail: liweic@clemson.edu
Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LC LZ ZZ YZ GH. Performed the experiments: LZ LC. Analyzed the data: LC LZ. Wrote the paper: LC LZ ZZ. Revised the manuscript: LC LZ ZZ GH YZ.