About the Authors

Xiaoning Peng

pxiaoning@hunnu.edu.cn (XP); zhangjian@hunnu.edu.cn (JZ)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Xiaomin Zeng

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Heath, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Sihua Peng

Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Defeng Deng

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jian Zhang

pxiaoning@hunnu.edu.cn (XP); zhangjian@hunnu.edu.cn (JZ)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XP JZ. Performed the experiments: XP XZ SP. Analyzed the data: XP XZ SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DD. Wrote the paper: XP JZ.