About the Authors

Hong Zhu

Affiliations Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Department of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Wei Xia

Affiliations Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Xing-Bo Mo

Affiliations Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Xiang Lin

Affiliation Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Ying-Hua Qiu

Affiliation Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Neng-Jun Yi

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yong-Hong Zhang

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Fei-Yan Deng

Affiliations Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Shu-Feng Lei

leisf@suda.edu.cn

Affiliations Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SF-L HZ. Data curation: HZ. Formal analysis: HZ XB-M. Funding acquisition: HZ XB-M SF-L. Investigation: XL YH-Q. Methodology: HZ WX. Project administration: SF-L. Resources: YH-Z. Software: SF-L NJ-Y. Supervision: FY-D YH-Z. Validation: XL YH-Q FY-D. Visualization: WX. Writing – original draft: HZ. Writing – review & editing: HZ WX XB-M XL YH-Q NJ-Y YH-Z FY-D SF-L.