Xie, Shan
Huang, Jia
Qiao, Qin
Zang, Wenjuan
Hong, Shanjuan
Tan, Haidong
Dong, Chen
Yang, Zhiying
Ni, Ling http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1569-882X
Funding for this research was provided by:
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (81502462)
Article History
Received: 10 January 2018
Accepted: 2 August 2018
First Online: 20 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest to disclose.
: All procedures in this study were approved by the institutional review board at Tsinghua University and were performed in accordance with the institutional guidelines. All patients’ data were anonymized before study inclusion. Fresh specimens and matched blood of CRC patients without any therapies were obtained from the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.