About the Authors

Qingxin Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingxin Yuan, Lu Chen

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Lu Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingxin Yuan, Lu Chen

Current address: Department of Endocrinology, The First People's Hospital of Changzhou (The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University), Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Cuiping Liu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Kuanfeng Xu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Xiaodong Mao

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Chao Liu

drliuchaonj@126.com

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QXY Chao Liu. Performed the experiments: QXY LC Cuiping Liu XDM KFX. Analyzed the data: QXY LC Cuiping Liu. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QXY LC Cuiping Liu. Wrote the paper: QXY LC.