About the Authors

Tao Bu

Contributed equally to this work with: Tao Bu, Li Liu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Guangdong Key Lab of Molecular Epidemiology, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Prevention and Health Care, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China

Li Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Tao Bu, Li Liu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Guangdong Key Lab of Molecular Epidemiology, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

Yong Sun

Affiliation Department of Prevention and Health Care, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China

Li Zhao

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Guangdong Key Lab of Molecular Epidemiology, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

Yang Peng

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Guangdong Key Lab of Molecular Epidemiology, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

Shudong Zhou

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Guangdong Key Lab of Molecular Epidemiology, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

Lixia Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Guangdong Key Lab of Molecular Epidemiology, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

Sidong Chen

sdchen2@126.com (SD); gao_yanhui@163.com (YG)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Guangdong Key Lab of Molecular Epidemiology, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

Yanhui Gao

sdchen2@126.com (SD); gao_yanhui@163.com (YG)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Guangdong Key Lab of Molecular Epidemiology, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YHG SDC LL TB. Performed the experiments: YS YP LZ. Analyzed the data: TB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS YP LZ SDZ LXL. Wrote the paper: TB LL.