About the Authors

Qian Xu

Affiliation Tumor Etiology and Screening Department of Cancer Institute and General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, the Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Prevention in Liaoning Province, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

Cai-yun He

Affiliation Tumor Etiology and Screening Department of Cancer Institute and General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, the Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Prevention in Liaoning Province, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

Jing-wei Liu

Affiliation Tumor Etiology and Screening Department of Cancer Institute and General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, the Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Prevention in Liaoning Province, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

Yuan Yuan

yyuan3@mai.cmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Tumor Etiology and Screening Department of Cancer Institute and General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, the Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Prevention in Liaoning Province, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY. Performed the experiments: QX. Analyzed the data: QX CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QX CH. Wrote the paper: QX. Revised the manuscript: QX CH JL YY.