About the Authors

Bo Xi

xibo2007@126.com (BX); donghaozhou@163.com (DZ)

Affiliation Department of Maternal and Child Health Care, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China

Giriraj R. Chandak

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Yue Shen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Qijuan Wang

Affiliation Department of Maternal and Child Health Care, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China

Donghao Zhou

xibo2007@126.com (BX); donghaozhou@163.com (DZ)

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Linyi People's Hospital, Linyi, Shandong, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BX DHZ. Performed the experiments: YS QJW DHZ. Analyzed the data: GRC YS QJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QJW DHZ. Wrote the paper: BX GRC.