About the Authors

Wei Bao

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Bao, Fangfang Song

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Fangfang Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Bao, Fangfang Song

Affiliations Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Xiangyang Li

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Shuang Rong

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Wei Yang

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Muxun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Endocrinology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Ping Yao

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Liping Hao

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Nianhong Yang

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Frank B. Hu

lgliu@mails.tjmu.edu.cn (LL); fhu@hsph.harvard.edu (FBH)

Affiliations Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Liegang Liu

lgliu@mails.tjmu.edu.cn (LL); fhu@hsph.harvard.edu (FBH)

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WB FS FBH LL. Performed the experiments: WB FS XL SR WY MZ PY LH. Analyzed the data: WB FS XL SR WY NY FBH LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WB MZ PY LH NY. Wrote the paper: WB LL.