About the Authors

Jun Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Zheng, Jiao Li, Lina Xu, Guiyuan Xie

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Department of Biochemistry of Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, Shanxi, China

Jiao Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Zheng, Jiao Li, Lina Xu, Guiyuan Xie

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Lina Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Zheng, Jiao Li, Lina Xu, Guiyuan Xie

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Guiyuan Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Zheng, Jiao Li, Lina Xu, Guiyuan Xie

Affiliation Department of Oncology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Qiuyuan Wen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Jiadi Luo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Duo Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Donghai Huang

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, the Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Songqing Fan

fansongqing2003@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SF. Performed the experiments: JZ JL LX QW DL. Analyzed the data: SF JL GX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF GX HD. Wrote the paper: SF.