About the Authors

Shulin Zhang

Affiliations Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Lung Cancer Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, Department of Surgical Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yucheng Wang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jian-Hua Mao

Affiliation Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

David Hsieh

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Il-Jin Kim

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Li-Min Hu

Affiliation Department of Obstertrics and Gynecology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Zhidong Xu

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hao Long

longhao@mail.sysu.edu.cn (HL); Liang.You@ucsfmedctr.org (LY)

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

David M. Jablons

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Liang You

longhao@mail.sysu.edu.cn (HL); Liang.You@ucsfmedctr.org (LY)

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SZ YW JHM LY. Performed the experiments: SZ IJK DH. Analyzed the data: SZ YW DH JHM IJK ZX HL DMJ LY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW IJK LMH. Wrote the paper: SZ LY.