About the Authors

Zhaofan Luo

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yanan Li

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Huamin Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jason Fleming

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Min Li

Affiliation The Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yaan Kang

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ran Zhang

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Donghui Li

dli@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL YL DL. Performed the experiments: ZL YL HW. Analyzed the data: ZL DL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML JF YK RZ. Wrote the paper: ZL DL.