About the Authors

Li Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Li, Jing Yan

Affiliations Department of Hepatic and Pancreatic Surgery, The First People’s Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, Guangdong, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Jing Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Li, Jing Yan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Jing Xu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Chao-Qun Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Zuo-Jun Zhen

zzjun@fsyyy.com (ZJZ); josephlau@cuhk.edu.hk (WYL)

Affiliation Department of Hepatic and Pancreatic Surgery, The First People’s Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, Guangdong, P. R. China

Huan-Wei Chen

Affiliation Department of Hepatic and Pancreatic Surgery, The First People’s Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, Guangdong, P. R. China

Yong Ji

Affiliation Department of Hepatic and Pancreatic Surgery, The First People’s Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, Guangdong, P. R. China

Zhi-Peng Wu

Affiliation Department of Hepatic and Pancreatic Surgery, The First People’s Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, Guangdong, P. R. China

Jian-Yuan Hu

Affiliation Department of Hepatic and Pancreatic Surgery, The First People’s Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, Guangdong, P. R. China

Limin Zheng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China

Wan Yee Lau

zzjun@fsyyy.com (ZJZ); josephlau@cuhk.edu.hk (WYL)

Affiliations Department of Hepatic and Pancreatic Surgery, The First People’s Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, Guangdong, P. R. China, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL JY LZ ZJZ WYL. Performed the experiments: LL JY JX CQL. Analyzed the data: LL JY HWC YJ ZPW JYH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL JY JX. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LL JY JX WYL LZ.