About the Authors

Chun Li Zhang

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou, China

Hui Jun Ren

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Meng Meng Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Third People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou, China

Xiao Gai Li

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

De Li Sun

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, The People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou, China

Nan Li

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Liang Ming

mingliang@zzu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM HJR CLZ DLS. Performed the experiments: CLZ HJR MML XGL NL. Analyzed the data: CLZ HJR NL DLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM CLZ HJR DLS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CLZ HJR LM.