About the Authors

Qiaolin Hu

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

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

Affiliations Iowa City Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Ming Li

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

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

Affiliations Iowa City Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Mrutyunjaya Parida

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Benjamin M. Spector

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology4 University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Juan F. Santana

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology4 University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Arya Zandvakili

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

David H. Price

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology4 University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Jeffery L. Meier

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

jeffery-meier@uiowa.edu

Affiliations Iowa City Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.