About the Authors

Chenyi Gao

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

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Mark Iles

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Harriet Larvin

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

Affiliation Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom

David Timothy Bishop

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leeds Institute of Medical Research, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

David Bunce

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Mark Ide

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Host Microbial Interactions, Faculty of Dentistry Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Fanyiwen Sun

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Susan Pavitt

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Jianhua Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Jing Kang

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

j.kang@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliation Oral Clinical Research Unit, Faculty of Dentistry Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.