All the clinical samples were collected from the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University. In the current study, fresh GC tumor tissues and adjacent normal gastric tissues were collected from patients who underwent surgical resection, blood samples were collected from GC patients diagnosed with primary GC without previously treatment, and paraffin-embedded GC tissues and adjacent noncancerous gastric tissues were obtained from patients who underwent resection between January 2014 and December 2015. Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated from fresh blood using Ficoll-Hypaque density gradient centrifugation (Biochrom, Berlin, Germany) according to a previous study [16 (link)]. All of the included patients provided informed consent and signed an agreement. Approval for this study was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University.
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