About the Authors

Yu Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Liang, Weizhong Tang, Tiqiang Huang

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Weizhong Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Liang, Weizhong Tang, Tiqiang Huang

Affiliation Department of Anal and colorectal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Tiqiang Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Liang, Weizhong Tang, Tiqiang Huang

Affiliation Department of Anal and colorectal Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Yong Gao

Affiliation Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Aihua Tan

Affiliation Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Xiaobo Yang

Affiliation Department of Occupational Health and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Haiying Zhang

Affiliation Department of Occupational Health and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Yanling Hu

Affiliation Medical Scientific Research Center, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Xue Qin

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Shan Li

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Shijun Zhang

Affiliation Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Linjian Mo

Affiliations Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China, Institute of Urology and Nephrology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Zhenjia Liang

Affiliation Medical Examination Center, Fangchenggang First People's Hospital, Fangchenggang, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Deyi Shi

Affiliation Medical Examination Center, Fangchenggang First People's Hospital, Fangchenggang, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Zhang Huang

Affiliation Medical Examination Center, Guigang First People's Hospital, Guigang, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Yingyong Guan

Affiliation Medical Examination Center, Yulin First People's Hospital, Yulin, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Jicheng Zhou

Affiliation Department of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Cheryl Winkler

Affiliation Molecular Genetics Epidemiology Sec., Frederick Nat. Lab for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen J. O'Brien

Affiliations Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Oceanographic Center, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America

Jianfeng Xu

Affiliations Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China, Center for Cancer Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Zengnan Mo

pengtaocn@hotmail.com (TP); zengnanmo@hotmail.com (ZM)

Affiliations Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China, Institute of Urology and Nephrology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Tao Peng

pengtaocn@hotmail.com (TP); zengnanmo@hotmail.com (ZM)

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TP ZM JX. Performed the experiments: YL YG AT YH XQ LM. Analyzed the data: YL YH XY CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XQ SL WT TH TP ZM XY HZ YG AT SZ ZL DS ZH YG JZ. Wrote the paper: YL WT TH. Obtained funding: ZM TP JX. Provided administrative support: WT. Study supervision: TP SJO JX ZM.