This work was supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China(2009CB521803);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30973492);the National Key Sci-Tech Special Project of China(2008ZX10002-019);the Projects of the State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes(80-08-02,91-09-01);And Yongdong Niu is supported by Visiting Scholarship from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University(2009-2010)and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine(2009-2010).
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