About the Authors

Shiyang Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Shiyang Pan, Fang Wang, Peijun Huang

sypan@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing, China

Fang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shiyang Pan, Fang Wang, Peijun Huang

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing, China

Peijun Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shiyang Pan, Fang Wang, Peijun Huang

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing, China

Ting Xu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing, China

Lixia Zhang

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing, China

Jian Xu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing, China

Qing Li

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing, China

Wenying Xia

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing, China

Ruihong Sun

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing, China

Lei Huang

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing, China

Ying Peng

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing, China

Xuejun Qin

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing, China

Yongqian Shu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zhibin Hu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Cancer Center of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hongbing Shen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Cancer Center of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SYP FW PJH. Performed the experiments: SYP FW PJH TX LXZ JX QL WYX RHS LH YP XJQ. Analyzed the data: SYP FW PJH YQS ZBH HBS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SYP ZBH HBS. Wrote the paper: SYP FW PJH TX.