About the Authors

Zhonghe Shao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Ting Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Meng Zhang

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Zhou Jiang

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Shuiping Huang

Roles Supervision

hsp@xzhmu.edu.cn (SH); zpstat@xzhmu.edu.cn (PZ)

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China, Center for Medical Statistics and Data Analysis, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China, Key Laboratory of Human Genetics and Environmental Medicine, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Ping Zeng

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

hsp@xzhmu.edu.cn (SH); zpstat@xzhmu.edu.cn (PZ)

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China, Center for Medical Statistics and Data Analysis, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China, Key Laboratory of Human Genetics and Environmental Medicine, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.