About the Authors

Shuijun Zhang

zhangshuijun@zzu.edu.cn (SZ); jialu@umich.edu (JL)

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery & Digestive Organ Transplantation of Henan Province, Henan, People’s Republic of China

Gongquan Li

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery & Digestive Organ Transplantation of Henan Province, Henan, People’s Republic of China

Yongfu Zhao

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery & Digestive Organ Transplantation of Henan Province, Henan, People’s Republic of China

Guangzhi Liu

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Henan Provincial Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China

Yu Wang

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Henan Provincial Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China

Xiuxian Ma

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery & Digestive Organ Transplantation of Henan Province, Henan, People’s Republic of China

Dexu Li

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery & Digestive Organ Transplantation of Henan Province, Henan, People’s Republic of China

Yang Wu

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery & Digestive Organ Transplantation of Henan Province, Henan, People’s Republic of China

Jianfeng Lu

zhangshuijun@zzu.edu.cn (SZ); jialu@umich.edu (JL)

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SZ G. Li JL. Performed the experiments: G. Li YZ Y. Wang XM SZ JL. Analyzed the data: G. Li G. Liu SZ JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: G. Liu YZ Y. Wu XM DL Y. Wang SZ JL. Wrote the paper: G. Li SZ JL.