About the Authors

Fen Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fen Zhu, Weige Wang

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Weige Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fen Zhu, Weige Wang

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yingyong Hou

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jindong Shi

Affiliation The Fifth People's Hospital of Shanghai, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Zilong Liu

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Deming He

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Chunxue Bai

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Shanqun Li

jiang_liyan2000@126.com.cn (LJ); li.shanqun@zs-hospital.sh.cn (SL)

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Liyan Jiang

jiang_liyan2000@126.com.cn (LJ); li.shanqun@zs-hospital.sh.cn (SL)

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL LJ FZ WW. Performed the experiments: FZ WW. Analyzed the data: FZ WW YH DH ZL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WW. Wrote the paper: FZ WW SL LJ. Revision of the manuscript draft: CB JS. Approval of the final draft: SL LJ.