About the Authors

Ha Si

Contributed equally to this work with: Ha Si, Ba Genna

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China, Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China, National Center for Liver Cancer, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital/Institute, the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Ba Genna

Contributed equally to this work with: Ha Si, Ba Genna

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

Xiangjin Zhuang

Roles Investigation, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Center for Liver Cancer, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital/Institute, the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jing Wang

Roles Software, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations National Center for Liver Cancer, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital/Institute, the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, Cancer Research Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

B. Burenbatu

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

qiyu@icloud.com (QF); hywangk@vip.sina.com (HW); brbt2013@163.com (BB)

Affiliation Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

Qiyu Feng

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

qiyu@icloud.com (QF); hywangk@vip.sina.com (HW); brbt2013@163.com (BB)

Affiliation National Center for Liver Cancer, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital/Institute, the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Hongyang Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

qiyu@icloud.com (QF); hywangk@vip.sina.com (HW); brbt2013@163.com (BB)

Affiliation National Center for Liver Cancer, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital/Institute, the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest.