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"Guarantor of the article: Li-Yan Xu, PhD.: Specific author contributions: Yi-Wei Xu designed the study, searched the literature, performed the experiments, analyzed and interpreted the data, and wrote the manuscript; Yu-Hui Peng collected patient samples and clinical data, analyzed, and interpreted the data; Bo Chen did the experiments; Zhi-Yong Wu and Jian-Yi Wu provided patient samples and clinical data; Chun-Peng Zheng collected patient samples and clinical data; Hai-Peng Guo, Jin-Hui Shen, and Shao-Hong Wang analyzed and interpreted clinical data; Li-Yan Xu and En-Min Li conceptualized and designed the study, supervised the project, and revised the paper. All authors vouch for the respective data and analysis, and have approved the final version and agreed to publish the manuscript.: Financial support: This work was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program (973 program no. 2012CB526608), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (no. 2012AA02A503 and no. 2012AA02A209), the Natural Science Foundation of China-Guangdong Joint Fund (no. U0932001), and the National Science Foundation of China (no. 81172264). The sponsors of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report.: Potential competing interests: None."

"Financial support: This work was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program (973 program no. 2012CB526608), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (no. 2012AA02A503 and no. 2012AA02A209), the Natural Science Foundation of China-Guangdong Joint Fund (no. U0932001), and the National Science Foundation of China (no. 81172264). The sponsors of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report."