About the Authors

Yiyang Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiyang Lu, Xiaolei Liu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Xiaolei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiyang Lu, Xiaolei Liu

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

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Erik Zhang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Elizabeth J. Kopras

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Eric P. Smith

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Aristotelis Astreinidis

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Center of Excellence, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America

Chenggang Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliations University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology and College of Pharmacy, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Yuet-Kin Leung

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Medicine Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, the University of Arkansas for Medical Science (UAMS), Little Rock, AR, United States of America

Shuk-Mei Ho

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Medicine Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, the University of Arkansas for Medical Science (UAMS), Little Rock, AR, United States of America

Jane J. Yu

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

yuj9@ucmail.uc.edu

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.