About the Authors

Ming Yin

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

Zhongxing Liao

qwei@mdanderson.org (QW); zliao@mdanderson.org (ZL)

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

Yu-Jing Huang

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

Zhensheng Liu

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

Xianglin Yuan

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Daniel Gomez

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

Li-E Wang

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

Qingyi Wei

qwei@mdanderson.org (QW); zliao@mdanderson.org (ZL)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MY ZXL QYW. Performed the experiments: MY ZSL. Analyzed the data: MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XLY DG LEW. Wrote the paper: MY YJH ZXL QYW.