About the Authors

Jianfeng Liu

Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America , Department of Basic Medical Science, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Chris Papasian

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Science, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Hong-Wen Deng

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dengh@umkc.edu

Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America , Department of Basic Medical Science, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America , Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China , The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

HWD conceived and designed the experiments. JL performed the experiments. JL and CP analyzed the data. JL, CP, and HWD contributed to writing the paper.