About the Authors

Hailin Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hailin Tang, Zeyou Wang, Qing Liu

Affiliations Cancer Research Institute, Central South University,Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis, Ministry of Health, Changsha, China, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Zeyou Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hailin Tang, Zeyou Wang, Qing Liu

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute, Central South University,Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis, Ministry of Health, Changsha, China

Qing Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hailin Tang, Zeyou Wang, Qing Liu

Affiliation The Center for Skull Base Surgery and Neurooncology, Hunan Province, Changsha, China

Xiaoping Liu

Affiliations Cancer Research Institute, Central South University,Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis, Ministry of Health, Changsha, China, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Minghua Wu

wuminghua554@aliyun.com (MW); ligy@xysm.net (GL)

Affiliations Cancer Research Institute, Central South University,Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis, Ministry of Health, Changsha, China, The Center for Skull Base Surgery and Neurooncology, Hunan Province, Changsha, China

Guiyuan Li

wuminghua554@aliyun.com (MW); ligy@xysm.net (GL)

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute, Central South University,Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis, Ministry of Health, Changsha, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HT MW GL. Performed the experiments: HT ZW QL. Analyzed the data: XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HT ZW XL. Wrote the paper: HT MW GL. Designed the software used in analysis: QL.