About the Authors

Pi Guo

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xijin Xu

Affiliation Laboratory of Environmental Medicine and Developmental Toxicology, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Binliang Huang

Affiliation Laboratory of Environmental Medicine and Developmental Toxicology, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Di Sun

Affiliation Laboratory of Environmental Medicine and Developmental Toxicology, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Jian Zhang

Affiliation Laboratory of Environmental Medicine and Developmental Toxicology, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Xiaojuan Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Environmental Medicine and Developmental Toxicology, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Qin Zhang

Affiliation Good Clinical Practice Office, Cancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Xia Huo

Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Huo, Yuantao Hao

xhuo@stu.edu.cn (XH); haoyt@mail.sysu.edu.cn (YTH)

Affiliation Laboratory of Environmental Medicine and Developmental Toxicology, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Yuantao Hao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Huo, Yuantao Hao

xhuo@stu.edu.cn (XH); haoyt@mail.sysu.edu.cn (YTH)

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG XH YTH. Performed the experiments: PG XJX BLH DS JZ XJC QZ. Analyzed the data: PG XH YTH. Wrote the paper: PG XH YTH.