About the Authors

Ming Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Li, Qiaolin Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Qiaolin Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Li, Qiaolin Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Geoffrey Collins

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

Mrutyunjaya Parida

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

Christopher B. Ball

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

David H. Price

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Jeffery L. Meier

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

Jeffery-meier@uiowa.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.