About the Authors

Jing Pan

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Qi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Yian Wang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ming You

youm@wudosis.wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JP MY. Performed the experiments: JP QZ. Analyzed the data: JP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JP QZ YW. Wrote the paper: JP.