About the Authors

Qiyi Yi

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Xiaoyu Zhao

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Yun Huang

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Tieliang Ma

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Yingyin Zhang

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Heli Hou

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Howard J. Cooke

Affiliations Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, MRC Human Genetics Unit and Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Da-Qing Yang

Affiliation Sanford Research/University of South Dakota, Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States of America

Mian Wu

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Qinghua Shi

qshi@ustc.edu.cn

Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QHS QYY. Performed the experiments: QYY XYZ YH TLM HLH YYZ. Analyzed the data: QYY QHS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QHS QYY MW. Wrote the paper: QYY QHS HJC DQY.