About the Authors

Yue Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Wei Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Liyan Xue

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Weimin Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Qimin Zhan

zhanqimin@pumc.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QMZ YZ. Analyzed the data: YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LYX QMZ. Wrote the paper: YZ QMZ. Performed the main experiments: YZ. Carried out the experiments of Immunohistochemical: WZ LX. Finished the job of realtime PCR: WMZ.