About the Authors

Jiangbo Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiangbo Liu, Wei Li

jiangboliuxing@163.com (JL); samfeng@163.com (XF)

Affiliations Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan, PR China, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, PR China

Wei Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiangbo Liu, Wei Li

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, PR China

Miao Deng

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan, PR China

Dechun Liu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan, PR China

Qingyong Ma

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, PR China

Xiaoshan Feng

jiangboliuxing@163.com (JL); samfeng@163.com (XF)

Affiliation Henan Key Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Cancer Institute, First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL WL QM. Performed the experiments: JL WL MD. Analyzed the data: JL WL MD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL QM XF. Wrote the paper: JL WL QM.