About the Authors

Christina Persson

Current address: Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Yanbin Jia

Current address: Department of Basic Medicine, Baotou Medical College, Baotou, China

Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Helena Pettersson

Affiliation Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Joakim Dillner

Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Olof Nyrén

Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Weimin Ye

Weimin.Ye@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CP ON WY. Performed the experiments: CP YJ HP JD ON WY. Analyzed the data: CP YJ ON WY. Wrote the paper: CP ON WY. Technical or material support: HP JD. Obtained funding: WY.