About the Authors

Gabriela F. Dias

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriela F. Dias, Chenxi Fan

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

Affiliation Renal Research Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Chenxi Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriela F. Dias, Chenxi Fan

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

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Maggie Han

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

Affiliation Renal Research Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Xiaoling Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Renal Research Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Ohnmar Thwin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Renal Research Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Lemuel Fuentes

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Renal Research Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Xin Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Renal Research Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Hanjie Zhang

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Renal Research Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Wensheng Guo

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Peter Kotanko

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

Affiliations Renal Research Institute, New York, New York, United States of America, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Nadja Grobe

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

nadja.grobe@rriny.com

Affiliation Renal Research Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Yuedong Wang

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

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Gabriela F. Dias is a contractor of the Renal Research Institute, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care. Maggie Han, Xiaoling Wang, Ohnmar Thwin, Lemuel Fuentes, Xin Wang, Hanjie Zhang, Peter Kotanko, and Nadja Grobe are employees of the Renal Research Institute, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care. Peter Kotanko holds stock in Fresenius Medical Care. Gabriela F. Dias, Xiaoling Wang, Hanjie Zhang, Peter Kotanko, and Nadja Grobe are inventors on multiple patents in the kidney space. Peter Kotanko serves on the editorial boards of several kidney journals.