About the Authors

Jian Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Yin, Juan Wen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Juan Wen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Yin, Juan Wen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Dong Hang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jing Han

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jie Jiang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Ci Song

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yao Liu

Affiliation Pathology Center and Department of Pathology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Jibin Liu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nantong Tumor Hospital, Nantong, China

Li Liu

Affiliation Digestive Endoscopy Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Liguo Zhu

Affiliation Department of Infection Diseases, Jiangsu Province Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China

Jianguo Chen

Affiliation Qidong Liver Cancer Institute, Qidong, China

Xiangjun Zhai

Affiliation Department of Infection Diseases, Jiangsu Province Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China

Shuanghua Xie

Affiliation National Office for Cancer Prevention and Control, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China

Zhibin Hu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hongbing Shen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Min Dai

lini1240@hotmail.com (NL); daimin2002@hotmail.com (MD)

Affiliation National Office for Cancer Prevention and Control, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China

Ni Li

lini1240@hotmail.com (NL); daimin2002@hotmail.com (MD)

Affiliation National Office for Cancer Prevention and Control, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NL MD HS ZH JY JW. Performed the experiments: JY JW JH JJ CS YL SX. Analyzed the data: JY JW NL MD HS ZH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL MD HS ZH JL LL LZ JC XZ. Wrote the paper: JY JW NL MD DH.