About the Authors

Yumie Takata

Affiliation Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Xiao-Ou Shu

xiao-ou.shu@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yu-Tang Gao

Affiliation Shanghai Cancer Institute, Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai, China

Honglan Li

Affiliation Shanghai Cancer Institute, Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai, China

Xianglan Zhang

Affiliation Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jing Gao

Affiliation Shanghai Cancer Institute, Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai, China

Hui Cai

Affiliation Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Gong Yang

Affiliation Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yong-Bing Xiang

Affiliation Shanghai Cancer Institute, Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai, China

Wei Zheng

Affiliation Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XOS YTG WZ. Performed the experiments: XOS YTG HL JG GY YBX WZ. Analyzed the data: YT HC. Wrote the paper: YT XOS XZ.