About the Authors
- Baqiyyah N. Conway
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America
- Xijing Han
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation International Epidemiology Field Station, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Heather M. Munro
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation International Epidemiology Field Station, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Amy L. Gross
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation International Epidemiology Field Station, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Xiao-Ou Shu
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Margaret K. Hargreaves
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Wei Zheng
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Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Alvin C. Powers
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Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing
Current address: Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America; VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Affiliation Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- William J. Blot
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: william.j.blot@vanderbilt.edu
Affiliations International Epidemiology Field Station, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.