About the Authors

Lingling Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Lingling Zhou, Lijing Yu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Lijing Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lingling Zhou, Lijing Yu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Ying Wang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Zhouqin Lu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Lihong Tian

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Li Tan

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yun Shi

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Shaofa Nie

sf_nie@mails.tjmu.edu.cn (SFN); gracefulliuly@gmail.com (LL)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Li Liu

sf_nie@mails.tjmu.edu.cn (SFN); gracefulliuly@gmail.com (LL)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SFN LLZ LJY LL. Performed the experiments: LLZ LJY YW YS. Analyzed the data: LLZ LJY YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LLZ LJY ZQL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LLZ LJY LHT LT.