About the Authors

Zheng Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zheng Jiang, Chunxiang Li

Affiliations Department of Colorectal Cancer Surgery, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, Colorectal Cancer Institute of the Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Chunxiang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zheng Jiang, Chunxiang Li

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Fuyuan Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Xishan Wang

wxshan1208@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliations Department of Colorectal Cancer Surgery, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, Colorectal Cancer Institute of the Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed some part of additional potentially eligible literature: FL. Conceived and designed the experiments: XW. Performed the experiments: ZJ CL FL. Analyzed the data: ZJ CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZJ CL FL. Wrote the paper: ZJ CL.