About the Authors

Ming Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Iowa and Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Iowa City, IA, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

Christopher B. Ball

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

Geoffrey Collins

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

Qiaolin Hu

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Iowa and Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

Donal S. Luse

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

David H. Price

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

Jeffery L. Meier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Jeffery-meier@uiowa.edu

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Iowa and Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors declared that no competing interests exist.