About the Authors

Runhua Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Runhua Lin, Zeyu Xie, Jianfa Zhang

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China, First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Zeyu Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Runhua Lin, Zeyu Xie, Jianfa Zhang

Affiliation Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Jianfa Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Runhua Lin, Zeyu Xie, Jianfa Zhang

Affiliation First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Hongwu Xu

Affiliation Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Hang Su

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Xuerui Tan

Affiliation First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Dongping Tian

dp_tian@163.com (DT); minsu@stu.edu.cn (MS)

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China, The Judicial Critical Center, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Min Su

dp_tian@163.com (DT); minsu@stu.edu.cn (MS)

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Pathology & Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China, The Judicial Critical Center, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS DT. Performed the experiments: RL HS. Analyzed the data: RL DT ZX JZ. Wrote the paper: RL DT MS. Contributed Clinical data: ZX JZ HX XT.