About the Authors

Xiaoling Wang

xwang@georgiahealth.edu

Affiliation Georgia Prevention Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Bonita Falkner

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Haidong Zhu

Affiliation Georgia Prevention Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Huidong Shi

Affiliation The Cancer Research Center, School of Medicine, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Shaoyong Su

Affiliation Georgia Prevention Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Xiaojing Xu

Affiliation Georgia Prevention Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Ashok Kumar Sharma

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology & Genomic Medicine, School of Medicine, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Yanbin Dong

Affiliation Georgia Prevention Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Frank Treiber

Affiliation Technology Applications Center for Healthful Lifestyles, Colleges Of Nursing and Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Bernard Gutin

Affiliation Georgia Prevention Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Gregory Harshfield

Affiliation Georgia Prevention Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Harold Snieder

Affiliation Unit of Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics, Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW BF SS H. Snieder. Performed the experiments: HZ H. Shi. Analyzed the data: XW SS AS XX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FT BG GH YD XX. Wrote the paper: XW BF SS H. Snieder XX.