About the Authors

Jianlan Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianlan Cui, Xueya Cai

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Fudan University, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Xueya Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianlan Cui, Xueya Cai

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Min Zhu

Affiliation AIDS and TB Division, Shanghai Zhabei Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Tianshu Liu

nqzhao@fudan.edu.cn (NZ); liutianshu@188.com (TL)

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Zhongshang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Naiqing Zhao

nqzhao@fudan.edu.cn (NZ); liutianshu@188.com (TL)

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Fudan University, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLC NQZ. Performed the experiments: JLC MZ. Analyzed the data: JLC NQZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NQZ. Wrote the paper: JLC TSL XYC.