About the Authors

Wan-Shui Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wan-Shui Yang, Puthiery Va

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Puthiery Va

Contributed equally to this work with: Wan-Shui Yang, Puthiery Va

Affiliation University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Freddie Bray

Affiliation Section of Cancer Information, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Shan Gao

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jing Gao

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Hong-Lan Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yong-Bing Xiang

ybxiang@shsci.org

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-BX W-SY. Performed the experiments: W-SY PV. Analyzed the data: W-SY PV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: W-SY PV. Wrote the paper: W-SY PV Y-BX. Guarantor: Y-BX. Critical review of the manuscript and interpretation of results: Y-BX W-SY PV FB SG JG H-LL.