About the Authors

Buyun Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wei-bao@uiowa.edu (WB); buyun-liu@uiowa.edu (BL)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Guifeng Xu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Yangbo Sun

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Xiu Qiu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Birth Cohort Study, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Kelli K. Ryckman

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Yongfu Yu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Linda G. Snetselaar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Wei Bao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

wei-bao@uiowa.edu (WB); buyun-liu@uiowa.edu (BL)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.