About the Authors

Mingzhu Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Mingzhu Yin, Yan Hou

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Oncology, The Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

Yan Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Mingzhu Yin, Yan Hou

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

Tao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

Changyi Cui

Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xiaohua Zhou

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Fengyu Sun

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

Huiyan Li

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy Oncology, The Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Xia Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Jian Zheng

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy Oncology, The Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Xiuwei Chen

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Oncology, The Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

Cong Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Xiaoming Ning

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Kang Li

louge@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn (GL); likang@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn (KL)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

Ge Lou

louge@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn (GL); likang@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn (KL)

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Oncology, The Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Designed the software used in analysis: FS. Conceived and designed the experiments: MY YH CC XZ GL KL. Performed the experiments: MY YH HL JZ XC XL CL XN GL. Analyzed the data: YH TZ XZ FS KL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MY YH CC XZ GL KL HL JZ CL XN. Wrote the paper: MY YH KL GL.