About the Authors

Qiang-Bo Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang-Bo Zhang, Hui-Chuan Sun, Ke-Zhi Zhang

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Hui-Chuan Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang-Bo Zhang, Hui-Chuan Sun, Ke-Zhi Zhang

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Ke-Zhi Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang-Bo Zhang, Hui-Chuan Sun, Ke-Zhi Zhang

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Qing-An Jia

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Yang Bu

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Miao Wang

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Zong-Tao Chai

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Quan-Bao Zhang

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Wen-Quan Wang

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Ling-Qun Kong

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Xiao-dong Zhu

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Lu Lu

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Wei-Zhong Wu

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Lu Wang

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Zhao-You Tang

zytang88@163.com

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, The Chinese 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: ZYT. Performed the experiments: QBZ HCS KZZ. Analyzed the data: QBZ HCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QAJ YB MW ZTC QBZ WQW LQK XDZ LL LW WZW. Wrote the paper: QBZ HCS. Revised the manuscript: QBZ HCS.