About the Authors

Yiming Hu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Qiongshi Lu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Wei Liu

Affiliation Peking University, Beijing, China

Yuhua Zhang

Affiliation Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Mo Li

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Hongyu Zhao

hongyu.zhao@yale.edu

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Program of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Clinical Epidemiology Research Center (CERC), Veterans Affairs (VA) Cooperative Studies Program, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YH QL HZ. Data curation: YH QL WL YZ ML. Formal analysis: YH QL WL YZ. Funding acquisition: HZ. Investigation: YH QL HZ. Methodology: YH QL HZ. Software: YH. Writing – original draft: YH HZ. Writing – review & editing: YH QL WL YZ ML HZ.