About the Authors
- Ai Peng
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ai Peng, Tianfu Wu
Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Tianfu Wu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ai Peng, Tianfu Wu
Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Caihong Zeng
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Affiliation Research Institute of Nephrology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
- Dinesh Rakheja
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Jiankun Zhu
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Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Ting Ye
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Jack Hutcheson
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Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Nosratola D. Vaziri
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Zhihong Liu
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* E-mail: joseph.zhou@ymail.com (XJZ); Chandra.mohan@utsouthwestern.edu (CM); zhihong-liu@hotmail.com (ZL)
Affiliation Research Institute of Nephrology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
- Chandra Mohan
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* E-mail: joseph.zhou@ymail.com (XJZ); Chandra.mohan@utsouthwestern.edu (CM); zhihong-liu@hotmail.com (ZL)
Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Xin J. Zhou
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* E-mail: joseph.zhou@ymail.com (XJZ); Chandra.mohan@utsouthwestern.edu (CM); zhihong-liu@hotmail.com (ZL)
Current address: Renal Path Diagnostics, Pathologists BioMedical Laboratories, Lewisville, Texas, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AP CM NDV ZL XJZ. Performed the experiments: AP TW CZ JZ TY JH. Analyzed the data: AP TW CZ DR TY ZL JH CM XJZ. Wrote the paper: AP DR NDV ZL CM XJZ.