About the Authors

Ming Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Zhang, Fei Yin

Affiliations Liver Transplantation Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University Medical School, Chengdu, People's Republic of China, Chinese Cochrane Center and Chinese Evidence-Based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University Medical School, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Fei Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Zhang, Fei Yin

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Bo Chen

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University Medical School, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

You Ping Li

Affiliation Chinese Cochrane Center and Chinese Evidence-Based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University Medical School, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Lu Nan Yan

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University Medical School, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Tian Fu Wen

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University Medical School, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Bo Li

zmhxdoctor@gmail.com

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University Medical School, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MZ FY YPL BL. Performed the experiments: MZ FY BC LNY TFW BL. Analyzed the data: MZ FY BC BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MZ BC LNY TFW BL. Wrote the paper: MZ FY.