About the Authors

Shuqin Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuqin Jia, Tingting Qu

jiashuqin2014@163.com (SQJ); jijiafu@hsc.pku.edu.cn (JFJ)

Affiliations Laboratory of Surgery, the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China, Center for Molecular Diagnosis, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China

Tingting Qu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuqin Jia, Tingting Qu

Affiliation Center for Molecular Diagnosis, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China

Xiaohong Wang

Affiliation Tissue Bank, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China

Mengmeng Feng

Affiliation Laboratory of Surgery, the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China

Yang Yang

Affiliation Laboratory of Surgery, the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China

Xuemin Feng

Affiliation Laboratory of Surgery, the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China

Ruiting Ma

Affiliation Laboratory of Surgery, the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China

Wenmei Li

Affiliation Center for Molecular Diagnosis, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China

Ying Hu

Affiliation Tissue Bank, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China

Yi Feng

Affiliation Center for Molecular Diagnosis, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China

Ke Ji

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China

Ziyu Li

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China

Wenguo Jiang

Affiliation Cardiff China Medical Research Collaborative, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Jiafu Ji

jiashuqin2014@163.com (SQJ); jijiafu@hsc.pku.edu.cn (JFJ)

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SJ TQ JFJ. Data curation: SJ TQ WGJ. Formal analysis: SJ TQ. Funding acquisition: SJ ZL JFJ. Investigation: SJ TQ XW MF YY XF RM WL YH YF ZL KJ. Methodology: SJ TQ. Project administration: SJ JFJ. Resources: WL YH. Software: WL YF WGJ. Supervision: SJ JFJ. Validation: SJ TQ. Visualization: SJ TQ. Writing – original draft: SJ TQ. Writing – review & editing: SJ JFJ.