About the Authors

Songyin Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Songyin Huang, Nengyong Ouyang, Ling Lin

Affiliation Department of Laboratory, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Nengyong Ouyang

Contributed equally to this work with: Songyin Huang, Nengyong Ouyang, Ling Lin

Affiliation Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Ling Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Songyin Huang, Nengyong Ouyang, Ling Lin

Affiliations Breast Tumor Center, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Rheumatology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou City, Guangdong, China

Lili Chen

Affiliation Breast Tumor Center, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Wei Wu

Affiliation Breast Tumor Center, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Fengxi Su

Affiliation Breast Tumor Center, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yandan Yao

yyandan@126.com (HY); yaoherui@163.com (YY)

Affiliation Breast Tumor Center, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Herui Yao

yyandan@126.com (HY); yaoherui@163.com (YY)

Affiliations Breast Tumor Center, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HY YY. Performed the experiments: SH NO LL LC WW YY. Analyzed the data: HY WW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HY YY FS. Wrote the paper: SH NO LL YY HY.