About the Authors

Haili Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Haili Zhu, Jiming Bao

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Jiming Bao

Contributed equally to this work with: Haili Zhu, Jiming Bao

Affiliation Department of Urology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Shuguang Liu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Qing Chen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Hong Shen

shenhong2010168@163.com

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS. Performed the experiments: HZ JB HS. Analyzed the data: HZ JB HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL QC. Wrote the paper: HZ JB HS.