About the Authors

Xiaoyan Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoyan Wu, Shuman Tao

Affiliations Department of Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Population Health & Aristogenics, Hefei, China

Shuman Tao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoyan Wu, Shuman Tao

Affiliation Department of Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Yukun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Shichen Zhang

Affiliations Department of Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Population Health & Aristogenics, Hefei, China

Fangbiao Tao

fbtao@ahmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Population Health & Aristogenics, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FT. Performed the experiments: ST. Analyzed the data: YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SZ. Wrote the paper: XW. Contributed to study design: XW.