About the Authors

Jin Xiao

jin_xiao@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation Eastman Institute for Oral Health, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Yonghwi Moon

Affiliation Eastman Institute for Oral Health, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Lihua Li

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, North Sichuan Medical University, Sichuan, China

Elena Rustchenko

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Hironao Wakabayashi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Xiaoyi Zhao

Affiliation School of Dentistry, Peking University, Beijing, China

Changyong Feng

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Steven R. Gill

Affiliation Genomics Research Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Sean McLaren

Affiliation Eastman Institute for Oral Health, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Hans Malmstrom

Affiliation Eastman Institute for Oral Health, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Yanfang Ren

Affiliation Eastman Institute for Oral Health, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Robert Quivey

Affiliation Eastman Institute for Oral Health, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Hyun Koo

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyun Koo, Dorota T. Kopycka-Kedzierawski

‡ These authors are co-mentors for the manuscript writing and critical revisions on this work.

Affiliation Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry & Community Oral Health Divisions, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Dorota T. Kopycka-Kedzierawski

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyun Koo, Dorota T. Kopycka-Kedzierawski

‡ These authors are co-mentors for the manuscript writing and critical revisions on this work.

Affiliation Eastman Institute for Oral Health, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JX CF YR RQ HK DK. Data curation: JX YM LL CF. Formal analysis: JX CF. Funding acquisition: JX HK. Investigation: JX YM LL ER HW XZ SM. Methodology: JX ER HW SG SM YR RQ DK. Project administration: JX. Resources: JX YM LL ER HW XZ SG SM HM YR RQ. Supervision: JX HK DK. Validation: JX YM LL ER HW XZ. Visualization: JX YM LL CF HK DK. Writing – original draft: JX CF HK DK. Writing – review & editing: JX YM LL ER HW XZ CF SG SM HM YR RQ HK DK.