About the Authors

Kayo Fujimoto

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

kayo.fujimoto@uth.tmc.edu

‡ These authors are designated as co-first authors.

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lizhong Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors are designated as co-first authors.

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jacky Kuo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Baode Gao

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hei Kit Chan

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michelle Carr

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation City of Houston Health Department, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Roger Sealy

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation City of Houston Health Department, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xi Luo

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Justin Bahl

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.