Funding for this research was provided by:
National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2017YFC0107600)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81773225)
Article History
Received: 16 August 2018
Accepted: 1 November 2018
First Online: 4 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: All of the patients included in our study were de-identified by the Cancer Genome Atlas; hence, no Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or institutional review board approval was required and written informed consent was waived.