About the Authors

Hongxia Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongxia Ma, Hua Yuan

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MOE Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Section of Clinical Epidemiology, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Centre, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hua Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongxia Ma, Hua Yuan

Affiliations Section of Clinical Epidemiology, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Centre, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Institute of Stomatology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zhiyao Yuan

Affiliation Institute of Stomatology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Chenjie Yu

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Ruixia Wang

Affiliation Institute of Stomatology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yue Jiang

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MOE Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Section of Clinical Epidemiology, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Centre, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zhibin Hu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MOE Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Section of Clinical Epidemiology, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Centre, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hongbing Shen

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MOE Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Section of Clinical Epidemiology, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Centre, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Ning Chen

ningchen09@gmail.com

Affiliation Institute of Stomatology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM HY NC. Performed the experiments: HM HY ZY. Analyzed the data: RW YJ ZH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CY ZH HS. Wrote the paper: HM HY NC.