About the Authors

Ping Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Sun, Jiangbo Du

Affiliations Department of General Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215004, China, Department of Pathology, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Wuxi Second Hospital, Wuxi 214006, China

Jiangbo Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Sun, Jiangbo Du

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Xun Zhu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Chuanli Ren

Affiliation Medical Lab, Northern Jiangsu People’s Hospital, Yangzhou 225001, China

Lan Xie

Affiliation Medical Systems Biology Research Center, Tsinghua University School of Medicine, Beijing 100084, China

Ningbin Dai

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Yayun Gu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Caiwang Yan

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Juncheng Dai

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Hongxia Ma

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Yue Jiang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Jiaping Chen

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Zhibin Hu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Hongbing Shen

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Haorong Wu

guangfujin@njmu.edu.cn (GJ); wuhaorong666@126.com (HW)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215004, China

Guangfu Jin

guangfujin@njmu.edu.cn (GJ); wuhaorong666@126.com (HW)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS J. Du GJ. Performed the experiments: XZ ND YG CY. Analyzed the data: J. Du J. Dai LX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJ JC HM. Wrote the paper: PS ZH HS GJ. Recruited subjects and diagnostic evaluation: CR HW.