About the Authors

Poliana Mendes Duarte

Contributed equally to this work with: Poliana Mendes Duarte, Ikramuddin Aukhil

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Aukhili23@ecu.edu (IA); pmendesduarte@dental.ufl.edu (PMD)

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Bruno César de Vasconcelos Gurgel

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil

Tamires Szeremeske Miranda

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

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, São Judas Tadeu University, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Juliana Sardenberg

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Periodontology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Tongjun Gu

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation ICBR Bioinformatics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Ikramuddin Aukhil

Contributed equally to this work with: Poliana Mendes Duarte, Ikramuddin Aukhil

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Aukhili23@ecu.edu (IA); pmendesduarte@dental.ufl.edu (PMD)

Affiliation ECU School of Dental Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.