About the Authors

Jing He

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing He, Yu Xu

Affiliations Cancer Research Laboratory, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yu Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing He, Yu Xu

Affiliation Department of Gastric Cancer & Soft Tissue Sarcoma Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Li-Xin Qiu

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Department of Medical Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Jin Li

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Department of Medical Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Xiao-Yan Zhou

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Meng-Hong Sun

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Jiu-Cun Wang

Affiliations Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Fudan-Taizhou Institute of Health Sciences, Taizhou, Jiangsu, China

Ya-Jun Yang

Affiliations Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Fudan-Taizhou Institute of Health Sciences, Taizhou, Jiangsu, China

Li Jin

Affiliations Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Fudan-Taizhou Institute of Health Sciences, Taizhou, Jiangsu, China

Qing-Yi Wei

wangyn1111@hotmail.com (YW); weiqingyi@yahoo.com (Q-YW)

Affiliations Cancer Research Laboratory, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yanong Wang

wangyn1111@hotmail.com (YW); weiqingyi@yahoo.com (Q-YW)

Affiliation Department of Gastric Cancer & Soft Tissue Sarcoma Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Q-YW Y-NW. Performed the experiments: JH YX. Analyzed the data: JH L-XQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL X-YZ M-HS J-CW Y-JY LJ. Wrote the paper: JH Q-YW Y-NW.