About the Authors

Biao Wang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Qi Zhang

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Bili Zhu

Affiliation Huiqiao Department, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Zhonglin Cui

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Jie Zhou

zhoujiejacky@126.com

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ. Performed the experiments: BW BLZ ZLC. Analyzed the data: BW QZ JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BLZ. Wrote the paper: BW QZ.