About the Authors

Ming Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Xu, Guoquan Tao, Meiyun Kang

Affiliations Department of Environmental Genomics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Genetic Toxicology, The Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Guoquan Tao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Xu, Guoquan Tao, Meiyun Kang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Huai-An First People’s Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Huai-an, China

Meiyun Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Xu, Guoquan Tao, Meiyun Kang

Affiliations Department of Environmental Genomics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Genetic Toxicology, The Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yan Gao

Affiliations Department of Environmental Genomics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Genetic Toxicology, The Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Haixia Zhu

Affiliations Department of Environmental Genomics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Core Laboratory of Nantong Tumor Hospital, Nantong, China

Weida Gong

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Yixing Cancer Hospital, Yixing, China

Meilin Wang

Affiliations Department of Environmental Genomics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Genetic Toxicology, The Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Dongmei Wu

Affiliations Department of Environmental Genomics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Genetic Toxicology, The Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zhengdong Zhang

drzdzhang@gmail.com (ZZ); njzhqh@sina.com (QZ)

Affiliations Department of Environmental Genomics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Genetic Toxicology, The Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Qinghong Zhao

drzdzhang@gmail.com (ZZ); njzhqh@sina.com (QZ)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Critical review of manuscript: ZZ MW DW QZ. Conceived and designed the experiments: MX ZZ YG. Performed the experiments: MX GT MK YG. Analyzed the data: MX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QT HZ WG. Wrote the paper: MX YG.