About the Authors

Quan-Lin Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Quan-Lin Li, Fang-Ming Gu, Zheng Wang, Jia-Hao Jiang

Affiliations Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Endoscopy Center and Endoscopy Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Fang-Ming Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Quan-Lin Li, Fang-Ming Gu, Zheng Wang, Jia-Hao Jiang

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Zheng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Quan-Lin Li, Fang-Ming Gu, Zheng Wang, Jia-Hao Jiang

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jia-Hao Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Quan-Lin Li, Fang-Ming Gu, Zheng Wang, Jia-Hao Jiang

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Li-Qing Yao

Affiliation Endoscopy Center and Endoscopy Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Chang-Jun Tan

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Xiao-Yong Huang

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Ai-Wu Ke

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Zhi Dai

Affiliations Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jia Fan

jiafan99@yahoo.com (JF); zhou.jian@zs-hospital.sh.cn (JZ)

Affiliations Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jian Zhou

jiafan99@yahoo.com (JF); zhou.jian@zs-hospital.sh.cn (JZ)

Affiliations Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QLL JF JZ. Performed the experiments: QLL FMG ZW JHJ. Analyzed the data: QLL FMG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LQY CJT XYH AWK ZD JF. Wrote the paper: QLL FMG ZW JZ.