About the Authors

Xiangsheng Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiangsheng Xiao, Bo Chen, Xiaoping Liu

Affiliations Department of Breast Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Bo Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiangsheng Xiao, Bo Chen, Xiaoping Liu

Affiliations Department of Breast Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xiaoping Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiangsheng Xiao, Bo Chen, Xiaoping Liu

Affiliations Department of Breast Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Peng Liu

Affiliations Department of Breast Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Guopei Zheng

Affiliation Affiliated Cancer Hospital and Cancer Research Institute, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510095, Guangdong, China

Feng Ye

Affiliations Department of Breast Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hailin Tang

xiexm@sysucc.org.cn (X. Xie); tanghl@sysucc.org.cn (HT)

Affiliations Department of Breast Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xiaoming Xie

xiexm@sysucc.org.cn (X. Xie); tanghl@sysucc.org.cn (HT)

Affiliations Department of Breast Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: X. Xie X. Xiao HT. Performed the experiments: X. Xiao HT BC XL PL. Analyzed the data: XL FY GZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: X. Xiao HT BC PL GZ. Wrote the paper: X. Xie HT BC. Designed the software used in analysis: FY.