About the Authors

Hui Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Lin, Liang Hu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Sir RunRun Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Liang Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Lin, Liang Hu

Affiliations Department of Clinical Oncology, State Key Laboratory for Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China, Institute of Reproductive and Stem Cell Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, National Engineering Research Center of Human Stem Cells, Changsha, China

Leilei Chen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology, State Key Laboratory for Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Hong Yu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Sir RunRun Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Qi Wang

Affiliation Biomedical Research Center, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Ping Chen

Affiliation Biomedical Research Center, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Xiao-Tong Hu

Affiliation Biomedical Research Center, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Xiu-Jun Cai

cxjzu@zju.edu.cn (XJC); xyguan@hkucc.hku.hk (XYG)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Sir RunRun Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Xin-Yuan Guan

cxjzu@zju.edu.cn (XJC); xyguan@hkucc.hku.hk (XYG)

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology, State Key Laboratory for Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH HL XYG. Performed the experiments: LH HL LLC HY QW PC XTH XJC. Analyzed the data: LH HL LLC HY QW PC XTH XJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL XJC XYG. Wrote the paper: HL LLC XYG. Reviewed, critiqued and offered comments to the text and approved the final version of manuscript: HL LH LLC HY QW PC XTH XJC XYG.