About the Authors

Fan Rong

Contributed equally to this work with: Fan Rong, Bin Cheng

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedical Research, Regulatory Mechanism and Targeted Therapy for Liver Cancer Shiyan Key Laboratory, Hubei provincial Clinical Research Center for Precise Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Cancer, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

Bin Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Fan Rong, Bin Cheng

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedical Research, Regulatory Mechanism and Targeted Therapy for Liver Cancer Shiyan Key Laboratory, Hubei provincial Clinical Research Center for Precise Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Cancer, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

Ling Guo

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedical Research, Regulatory Mechanism and Targeted Therapy for Liver Cancer Shiyan Key Laboratory, Hubei provincial Clinical Research Center for Precise Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Cancer, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

Shaobo Zeng

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery, Wudangshan Branch of Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

Xunliang Xu

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hubei provincial Clinical Research Center for Precise Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Cancer, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

Zhongji Meng

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

zhongjimeng@163.com

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedical Research, Regulatory Mechanism and Targeted Therapy for Liver Cancer Shiyan Key Laboratory, Hubei provincial Clinical Research Center for Precise Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Cancer, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.