About the Authors

Wenming Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenming Wu, Xiafei Hong

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Xiafei Hong

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenming Wu, Xiafei Hong

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Rui Tian

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Lei You

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Menghua Dai

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Quan Liao

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Taiping Zhang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Yupei Zhao

zhao8028@263.net

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW XH RT YZ. Analyzed the data: WW XH RT LY MD QL TZ YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WW XH. Wrote the paper: WW XH RT YZ.