About the Authors

Ming-yang Song

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Kai-feng Pan

pankaifeng2002@yahoo.com (KFP); weichengyou@yahoo.com (WCY)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Hui-juan Su

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Lian Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Jun-ling Ma

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Ji-you Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yasuhito Yuasa

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Daehee Kang

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Yong Sung Kim

Affiliation Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Medical Genomics Research Center, Daejeon, Korea

Wei-cheng You

pankaifeng2002@yahoo.com (KFP); weichengyou@yahoo.com (WCY)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WCY KFP. Performed the experiments: MYS KFP HJS LZ JLM JYL. Analyzed the data: WCY KFP MYS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WCY KFP. Wrote the paper: WCY KFP MYS. Study supervision: YY DK YSK.