About the Authors

Kaizong Ye

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

Affiliation Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Zhen Chen

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch, Division of Population Health Research, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Shanshan Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

shanshan.zhao@nih.gov

Affiliation Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.