About the Authors

Chang-Chang Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Chang-Chang Jia, Tian-Tian Wang, Wei Liu

Affiliations Department of Hepatic Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, Guangzhou, China

Tian-Tian Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chang-Chang Jia, Tian-Tian Wang, Wei Liu

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, Guangzhou, China, Department of Medical Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Wei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chang-Chang Jia, Tian-Tian Wang, Wei Liu

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, Guangzhou, China

Bin-Sheng Fu

Affiliation Department of Hepatic Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

XueFeng Hua

Affiliations Department of Hepatic Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, Guangzhou, China

Guo-Ying Wang

Affiliations Department of Hepatic Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, Guangzhou, China

Tuan-Jie Li

Affiliations Department of Hepatic Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, Guangzhou, China

Xing Li

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xiang-Yuan Wu

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yan Tai

Affiliations Department of Hepatic Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, Guangzhou, China

Jie Zhou

zhoujie01@medmail.com.cn (JZ); keekee77@126.com (QZ)

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Gui-Hua Chen

Affiliations Department of Hepatic Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, Guangzhou, China

Qi Zhang

zhoujie01@medmail.com.cn (JZ); keekee77@126.com (QZ)

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, Guangzhou, China, Cell-gene Therapy Translational Medicine Research Center, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QZ JZ GHC. Performed the experiments: CCJ TTW WL BSF XFH TJL. Analyzed the data: GYW XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XYW YT. Wrote the paper: CCJ TTW XL.