About the Authors

Qiman Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiman Sun, Kang Song

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Kang Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiman Sun, Kang Song

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Xizhong Shen

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Yu Cai

drcaiyu001@163.com

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC. Performed the experiments: QMS KS XZS YC. Analyzed the data: QMS KS XZS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QMS KS XZS. Wrote the paper: QMS KS YC.