About the Authors

Jiaolin Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiaolin Zhou, Lianpeng Chang

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

Lianpeng Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiaolin Zhou, Lianpeng Chang

Affiliation Geneplus-Beijing, Beijing, China

Yanfang Guan

Affiliation Geneplus-Beijing, Beijing, China

Ling Yang

Affiliation Geneplus-Beijing, Beijing, China

Xuefeng Xia

Affiliation Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Liqiang Cui

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

Xin Yi

linguole@126.com (GL); yix@geneplus.org.cn (XY)

Affiliation Geneplus-Beijing, Beijing, China

Guole Lin

linguole@126.com (GL); yix@geneplus.org.cn (XY)

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

Competing Interests

Lianpeng Chang, Yanfang Guan, Ling Yang, and Xin Yi are consultants for Geneplus-Beijing. The authors confirm that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Other authors declare no conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL XY LY. Performed the experiments: JZ GL LQC. Analyzed the data: JZ LPC YG XX XY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL LY XY. Wrote the paper: JZ LPC YG LQC.