About the Authors

Shi Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

zhaoshi.cmsa@gmail.com (SZ); daihai.he@polyu.edu.hk (DH)

Affiliations JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China

Marc K. C. Chong

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China

Sukhyun Ryu

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Konyang University College of Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea

Zihao Guo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Mu He

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Foundational Mathematics, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

Boqiang Chen

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Salihu S. Musa

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, Department of Mathematics, Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Nigeria

Jingxuan Wang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Yushan Wu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Daihai He

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

zhaoshi.cmsa@gmail.com (SZ); daihai.he@polyu.edu.hk (DH)

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Maggie H. Wang

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MHW is a shareholder of Beth Bioinformatics Co., Ltd. Other authors declared no competing interests. The funding agencies had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; or decision to submit the manuscript for publication.