About the Authors

Jianwei Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianwei Wu, Shengyun Chen

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing TianTan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Shengyun Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianwei Wu, Shengyun Chen

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing TianTan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yong Zhou

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing TianTan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Chunxue Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing TianTan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Anxin Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing TianTan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Qian Zhang

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Beijing TianTan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Department of Neural Stem Cell Transplantation, The General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces, Beijing, China

Xiang Gao

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Haitao Hu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shouling Wu

zxq@vip.163.com (XQZ); drwusl@163.com (SLW)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Kailuan Hospital, Hebei United University, Tangshan, China

Xingquan Zhao

zxq@vip.163.com (XQZ); drwusl@163.com (SLW)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing TianTan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XQZ JWW SYC SLW. Performed the experiments: YZ. Analyzed the data: AXW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ CXW. Wrote the manuscript: JWW HTH XG.