This work was funded by the Guangdong Department of Science and Technology Translational Medicine Center grant (No. 2011 A080300002), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No. 20130171130008), the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province, China (Nos. 2013B051000019 and 2014B020212020), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (No. 2014A030313136), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81570599). We thank the staff of The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University for help with sample collection, DNA extraction, and clinical data collection.
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