About the Authors

Xiao-Hui Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Hui Li, Xue-Ping Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Xue-Ping Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Hui Li, Xue-Ping Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Wen-Shen Gu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Guangzhou, China

Jian-Hua Lin

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Hao Huang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Ting Kang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Lin Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute, Guangzhou, China

Hao Chen

zhengxin@sysucc.org.cn (XZ); chenhao@sysucc.org.cn (HC)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Xin Zheng

zhengxin@sysucc.org.cn (XZ); chenhao@sysucc.org.cn (HC)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ XHL XPW HC. Performed the experiments: WSG JHL. Analyzed the data: HH TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ. Wrote the paper: XHL XPW.