About the Authors

Jingyao Dai

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Shaogui Wan

Affiliation Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Feng Zhou

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Ronald E. Myers

Affiliation Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xu Guo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Cell Engineering Research Center & Department of Cell Biology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Bingshan Li

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics Research, Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Xiaoying Fu

Affiliation Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Juan P. Palazzo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kefeng Dou

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Hushan Yang

hushan.yang@jefferson.edu (HY); xingjl@fmmu.edu.cn (JX)

Affiliation Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jinliang Xing

hushan.yang@jefferson.edu (HY); xingjl@fmmu.edu.cn (JX)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Cell Engineering Research Center & Department of Cell Biology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLX. Performed the experiments: JYD SW XF. Analyzed the data: FZ REM XG BSL KFD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPP KFD. Wrote the paper: JYD HSY.