About the Authors

Nan Lin

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Yun Zhu

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Ruzong Fan

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch (BBB), Division of Intramural Population Health Research (DIPHR), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Momiao Xiong

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Momiao.Xiong@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.