About the Authors

Jian Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Liu, Huijie Fan

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The First Teaching Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Basic Medical College, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, Department of Pathology, the Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Huijie Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Liu, Huijie Fan

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The First Teaching Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

Yuanyuan Ma

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Pathology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Dongming Liang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Ruixia Huang

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Pathology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Junsheng Wang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Anyang Tumor Hospital, Anyang, Henan Province, China

Fuyou Zhou

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Anyang Tumor Hospital, Anyang, Henan Province, China

Quancheng Kan

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, The First Teaching Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

Liang Ming

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory, The First Teaching Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

Huixiang Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The First Teaching Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Basic Medical College, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

Karl-Erik Giercksky

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Institute for Cancer Research, the Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Jahn Martin Nesland

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Pathology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Zhenhe Suo

zhenhesuo@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Oncology, The First Teaching Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, Department of Pathology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KEG JMN ZS. Performed the experiments: JL HF YM DL RH JW FZ QK LM HL. Analyzed the data: JL HF YM DL RH JW FZ QK LM HL KEG JMN ZS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW FZ QK LM HL. Wrote the paper: JL HF YM DL RH JW FZ QK LM HL JMN KEG ZS.