About the Authors

Zhaoxi Wang

mikewang@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Feng Chen

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rihong Zhai

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lingsong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Li Su

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xihong Lin

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Taylor Thompson

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David C. Christiani

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW RZ LS BTT DCC. Performed the experiments: ZW RZ LS. Analyzed the data: ZW FC RZ LZ XL. Wrote the paper: ZW BTT DCC.