About the Authors

Xiang Gao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations College of Life Sciences, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China

Edward Randell

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Haicheng Zhou

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, The Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Guang Sun

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

gsun@mun.ca

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.