About the Authors

Huan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Huan Zhang, Jing Chen, Fenghua Liu

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Jing Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Huan Zhang, Jing Chen, Fenghua Liu

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Fenghua Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Huan Zhang, Jing Chen, Fenghua Liu

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Chuntao Gao

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Xiuchao Wang

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Tiansuo Zhao

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Jingcheng Liu

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Song Gao

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Xiao Zhao

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

He Ren

renhe@tjmuch.com (HR); haojihui@tjmuch.com (JH)

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Jihui Hao

renhe@tjmuch.com (HR); haojihui@tjmuch.com (JH)

Affiliation National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Department of Pancreatic Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ JC FL CG XW TZ JL SG XZ HR JH. Performed the experiments: HZ JC FL. Analyzed the data: HZ JC FL CG XW TZ JL SG XZ HR JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ JC FL CG XW TZ JL SG XZ HR JH. Wrote the paper: HZ JC FL HR JH.