About the Authors

Xiaoya Luo

Affiliations Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Friendship Hospital Affiliated with the Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Christian Stock

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Barbara Burwinkel

Affiliations Divison of Molecular Biology of Breast Cancer, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Molecular Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Hermann Brenner

h.brenner@dkfz.de

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB HB. Performed the experiments: XL. Analyzed the data: XL CS. Wrote the paper: XL.