About the Authors

Jian Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Liu, Kui Wang, Zhenlin Yan

Affiliation Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Kui Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Liu, Kui Wang, Zhenlin Yan

Affiliation Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Zhenlin Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Liu, Kui Wang, Zhenlin Yan

Affiliation Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yong Xia

Affiliation Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jun Li

Affiliation Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Lehua Shi

Affiliation Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Qifei Zou

Affiliation Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Xuying Wan

Affiliation Department of Clinical Database, the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Binghua Jiao

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Hongyang Wang

Affiliation National Scientific Center for Liver Cancer, Shanghai, China

Mengchao Wu

Affiliations Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China, National Scientific Center for Liver Cancer, Shanghai, China

Yongjie Zhang

shenfengehbh@sina.com (FS); yjoy005@sina.com (YZ)

Affiliation Department of Biliary Surgery, the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Feng Shen

shenfengehbh@sina.com (FS); yjoy005@sina.com (YZ)

Affiliation Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL (first author) FS. Performed the experiments: JL (first author) KW. Analyzed the data: JL (first author) ZY YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX ZY JL (fifth author) LS QZ XW BJ. Wrote the paper: JL (first author) HW MW YZ FS.