About the Authors

Feifei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Feifei Wang, Yudan Qiao

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Yudan Qiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Feifei Wang, Yudan Qiao

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Jiang Yu

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Xiaoli Ren

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Jianmei Wang

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Yi Ding

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Xiaojing Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Wenhui Ma

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Yanqing Ding

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Li Liang

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Affiliations Department of Pathology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL YD. Performed the experiments: FW YQ XR XZ. Analyzed the data: JW WM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JY YD. Wrote the paper: FW LL.