About the Authors

Hong Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Zheng, Lina Zhang

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, P.R. China, Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin Medical University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, P.R. China

Lina Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Zheng, Lina Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin Medical University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, P.R. China, Department of Breast Oncology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, P.R. China

Yanrui Zhao

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, P.R. China, Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin Medical University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, P.R. China

Da Yang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Fengju Song

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, P.R. China, Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin Medical University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, P.R. China

Yang Wen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Quan Hao

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin Medical University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, P.R. China, Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, P.R. China

Zhibin Hu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wei Zhang

wzhang@mdanderson.org (WZ); chenkexin1963@yahoo.com (KC)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kexin Chen

wzhang@mdanderson.org (WZ); chenkexin1963@yahoo.com (KC)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, P.R. China, Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin Medical University, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ WZ KC. Performed the experiments: YZ. Analyzed the data: LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FS DY YW QH ZH. Wrote the paper: HZ LZ.