About the Authors

Songtao Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Songtao Qi, Ye Song, Yuping Peng, Hao Wang

qisongtaosjwk@163.com (SQ); narcissus_jane@163.com (ZL); fangweiyi1975@yahoo.com.cn (WF)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Ye Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Songtao Qi, Ye Song, Yuping Peng, Hao Wang

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China, Cancer Research Institute of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Yuping Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Songtao Qi, Ye Song, Yuping Peng, Hao Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Hao Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Songtao Qi, Ye Song, Yuping Peng, Hao Wang

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Hao Long

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Xiaoli Yu

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Zhiyong Li

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Luxiong Fang

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Aibing Wu

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Weiren Luo

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Yan Zhen

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Ying Zhou

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Yan Chen

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Chunping Mai

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Zhen Liu

qisongtaosjwk@163.com (SQ); narcissus_jane@163.com (ZL); fangweiyi1975@yahoo.com.cn (WF)

Affiliations Cancer Research Institute of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China, Department of Pathology, Basic School of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Weiyi Fang

qisongtaosjwk@163.com (SQ); narcissus_jane@163.com (ZL); fangweiyi1975@yahoo.com.cn (WF)

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: STQ YS ZL WYF. Performed the experiments: STQ WYF YS ZL YPP HW HL ZYL LXF XLY ABW WRL Y. Zhen Y. Zhou YC CPM. Analyzed the data: STQ WYF YS ZL YPP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: STQ YS ZL WYF. Wrote the paper: STQ YS PPY ZL WYF.