About the Authors

Feng Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Xie, Long Yan

Affiliation Department of Special Treatment and Liver Transplantation, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Long Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Xie, Long Yan

Affiliation Department of Special Treatment and Liver Transplantation, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jiongjiong Lu

Affiliation Department of Special Treatment and Liver Transplantation, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Tao Zheng

Affiliation Department of Special Treatment and Liver Transplantation, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Changying Shi

Affiliation Department of Special Treatment and Liver Transplantation, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jun Ying

Affiliation Department of Special Treatment and Liver Transplantation, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Rongxi Shen

Affiliation Department of Special Treatment and Liver Transplantation, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jiamei Yang

jiameiyang@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Special Treatment and Liver Transplantation, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FX LY J.Yang. Performed the experiments: FX LY JL TZ. Analyzed the data: FX LY CS RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS TZ J. Ying. Wrote the paper: FX LY J.Yang.