About the Authors

Deliang Tang

dt14@columbia.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Joan Lee

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Loren Muirhead

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Ting Yu Li

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Lirong Qu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jie Yu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Frederica Perera

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DT TYL FP. Performed the experiments: LRQ JY. Analyzed the data: DT JL LM TYL FP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DT TYL FP. Wrote the paper: DT JL LM FP.