About the Authors

Ling-Qun Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling-Qun Kong, Xiao-Dong Zhu, Hua-Xiang Xu

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis & Cancer Invasion, The Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, P.R. China

Xiao-Dong Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling-Qun Kong, Xiao-Dong Zhu, Hua-Xiang Xu

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis & Cancer Invasion, The Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, P.R. China

Hua-Xiang Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling-Qun Kong, Xiao-Dong Zhu, Hua-Xiang Xu

Affiliations Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis & Cancer Invasion, The Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, P.R. China, Department of Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, P.R. China

Ju-Bo Zhang

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis & Cancer Invasion, The Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, P.R. China

Lu Lu

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis & Cancer Invasion, The Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, P.R. China

Wen-Quan Wang

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis & Cancer Invasion, The Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, P.R. China

Qiang-Bo Zhang

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis & Cancer Invasion, The Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, P.R. China

Wei-Zhong Wu

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis & Cancer Invasion, The Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, P.R. China

Lu Wang

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis & Cancer Invasion, The Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, P.R. China

Jia Fan

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis & Cancer Invasion, The Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, P.R. China

Zhao-You Tang

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis & Cancer Invasion, The Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, P.R. China

Hui-Chuan Sun

sun.huichuan@zs-hospital.sh.cn

Affiliation Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory for Carcinogenesis & Cancer Invasion, The Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LQK XDZ HXX HCS. Performed the experiments: LQK XDZ HXX LL WQW. Analyzed the data: LQK XDZ HXX JBZ LL WQW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JBZ LL WQW QBZ WZW LW JF ZYT. Wrote the paper: LQK XDZ HXX HCS.