About the Authors

Yuan-Fei Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan-Fei Peng, Ying-Hong Shi

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Ying-Hong Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan-Fei Peng, Ying-Hong Shi

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Zhen-Bin Ding

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jian Zhou

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Shuang-Jian Qiu

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Bo Hui

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Cheng-Yu Gu

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Hua Yang

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Wei-Ren Liu

Affiliation Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jia Fan

fan.jia@zs-hosptal.sh.cn

Affiliations Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Technical assistance: JZ SJQ. Conceived and designed the experiments: YFP YHS JF. Performed the experiments: YFP ZBD WRL CYG BH HY. Analyzed the data: YFP YHS JF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ SJQ. Wrote the paper: YFP JF.