About the Authors

Qi Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Zhou, Ying-Qing Mao

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Ying-Qing Mao

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Zhou, Ying-Qing Mao

Affiliations RayBiotech, Inc., Guangzhou, China, RayBiotech, Inc., Norcross, Georgia, United States of America

Wei-Dong Jiang

Affiliations RayBiotech, Inc., Guangzhou, China, RayBiotech, Inc., Norcross, Georgia, United States of America

Yun-Ru Chen

Affiliation RayBiotech, Inc., Guangzhou, China

Ren-Yu Huang

Affiliation RayBiotech, Inc., Guangzhou, China

Xiang-Bing Zhou

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Ya-Feng Wang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Zhi Shi

Affiliations RayBiotech, Inc., Guangzhou, China, South China Biochip Research Center, Guangzhou, China

Zhong-Sheng Wang

Affiliation RayBiotech, Inc., Guangzhou, China

Ruo-Pan Huang

rhuang@raybiotech.com

Affiliations RayBiotech, Inc., Guangzhou, China, RayBiotech, Inc., Norcross, Georgia, United States of America, South China Biochip Research Center, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

Ying-Qing Mao, Wei-Dong Jiang, Yun-Ru Chen, Zhi Shi, Yan-Li Liu and Ruo-Pan Huang are the employees of RayBiotech, Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YQM QZ RPH. Performed the experiments: QZ YRC YQM. Analyzed the data: WDJ RYH ZSW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ XBZ YFW. Wrote the paper: ZS YQM RPH.