About the Authors

Chen Mao

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Mao, Junhua Zhou

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

Junhua Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Mao, Junhua Zhou

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Zuyao Yang

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

Yafang Huang

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

Xinyin Wu

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

Hong Shen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Jinling Tang

jltang@cuhk.edu.hk (JT); qingchen@fimmu.com (QC)

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

Qing Chen

jltang@cuhk.edu.hk (JT); qingchen@fimmu.com (QC)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM QC. Performed the experiments: JZ HS. Analyzed the data: CM ZY YH XW JT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM JZ HS. Wrote the paper: CM JZ ZY JT QC.