About the Authors

Bian Liu

Affiliation Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, New York, New York, United States of America

Emanuela Taioli

emanuela.taioli@mountsinai.org

Affiliation Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BL ET. Performed the experiments: BL. Analyzed the data: BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BL ET. Wrote the paper: BL ET.