About the Authors

Ping Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Xu, Li Liu

Affiliations Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Ministry of Education Key Lab for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Department of Oncology, Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corporation Staff-Worker Hospital, Wuhan, China

Li Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Xu, Li Liu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jianzhong Wang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corporation Staff-Worker Hospital, Wuhan, China

Kai Zhang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Xiaohua Hong

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Qifei Deng

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Ministry of Education Key Lab for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jingjun Xiang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corporation Staff-Worker Hospital, Wuhan, China

Xiaomin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Ministry of Education Key Lab for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Meian He

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Ministry of Education Key Lab for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Tangchun Wu

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Ministry of Education Key Lab for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Huan Guo

ghuan5011@hust.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Ministry of Education Key Lab for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PX LL TW HG. Performed the experiments: PX LL JW KZ XH QD JX HG. Analyzed the data: PX LL TW HG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PX LL JW KZ XH JX XZ MH TW HG. Wrote the paper: PX LL HG.