About the Authors

Yunzhong Yang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Tianhua Niu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tniu@tulane.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tulane University School Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.