About the Authors

Jun Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Zhang, Jian-min Yang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China, Department of Gastroenterology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China

Jian-min Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Zhang, Jian-min Yang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China

Hui-ju Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China

Guo-qing Ru

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Dai-ming Fan

fandaim@fmmu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMY DMF. Performed the experiments: JZ HJW GQR. Analyzed the data: JMY DMF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ JMY. Wrote the paper: JZ JMY DMF.