About the Authors

Jiaze An

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

Jibin Liu

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nantong Tumor Hospital, Nantong, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Li Liu

Affiliation Digestive Endoscopy Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yao Liu

Affiliation Pathology Center and Department of Pathology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yun Pan

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Mingde Huang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Huai’an First People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Huai’an, Jiangsu, China

Fuzhen Qi

Affiliation Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Huai’an First People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Huai’an, Jiangsu, China

Juan Wen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Kaipeng Xie

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Hongxia Ma

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Hongbing Shen

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Zhibin Hu

zhibin_hu@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JA HM HS ZH. Performed the experiments: YL YP MH FQ. Analyzed the data: YL YP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL LL JW KX. Wrote the paper: JA YL YP.