About the Authors

Can Zhou

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shan’xi Province, China

Li Zhang

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shan’xi Province, China

Hua Wang

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shan’xi Province, China

Xiaoxia Ma

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shan’xi Province, China

Bohui Shi

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shan’xi Province, China

Wuke Chen

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shan’xi Province, China

Jianjun He

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shan’xi Province, China

Ke Wang

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shan’xi Province, China

Peijun Liu

peijun1020@163.com (PL); renyyyyy@126.com (YR)

Affiliation Department of Translational Medicine Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China

Yu Ren

peijun1020@163.com (PL); renyyyyy@126.com (YR)

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shan’xi Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YR CZ. Performed the experiments: CZ YR LZ. Analyzed the data: CZ LZ HW XM BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH HW XM. Wrote the paper: CZ LZ. Reviewed/Edited the manuscript: KW PL WC.