About the Authors

Geng-Gang Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Geng-Gang Wu, Wen-Hong Li, Wen-Guang He

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Zengcheng People’s Hospital (BoJi-Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University), Zengcheng, China

Wen-Hong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Geng-Gang Wu, Wen-Hong Li, Wen-Guang He

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Zengcheng People’s Hospital (BoJi-Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University), Zengcheng, China

Wen-Guang He

Contributed equally to this work with: Geng-Gang Wu, Wen-Hong Li, Wen-Guang He

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Zengcheng People’s Hospital (BoJi-Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University), Zengcheng, China

Nan Jiang

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Guang-Xian Zhang

Affiliation School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Wei Chen

Affiliation Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Hai-Feng Yang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Guangdong Provincial Hospital of TCM), Guangzhou, China

Qi-Long Liu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Zengcheng People’s Hospital (BoJi-Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University), Zengcheng, China

Yan-Nian Huang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Zengcheng People’s Hospital (BoJi-Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University), Zengcheng, China

Lei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zengcheng People’s Hospital (BoJi-Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University), Zengcheng, China

Tong Zhang

zhjeff72@sina.com (TZ); zxcheng1974@163.com (XCZ)

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xian-Cheng Zeng

zhjeff72@sina.com (TZ); zxcheng1974@163.com (XCZ)

Affiliations Department of General Surgery, Zengcheng People’s Hospital (BoJi-Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University), Zengcheng, China, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zengcheng People’s Hospital (BoJi-Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University), Zengcheng, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XCZ TZ GXZ HFY. Performed the experiments: XCZ GGW WHL WGH LZ NJ WC. Analyzed the data: XCZ GGW WHL WGH LZ WC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XCZ QLL YNH NJ. Wrote the paper: XCZ TZ NJ.