About the Authors

Yon Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Yon Cui, Wenzhou Cao

Affiliation Department of Urology, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Suzhou, China

Wenzhou Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yon Cui, Wenzhou Cao

Affiliation Department of Urology, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Suzhou, China

Hua Shen

Affiliation Department of Urology, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Suzhou, China

Jianjun Xie

Affiliation Department of Urology, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Suzhou, China

Tamara S. Adams

Affiliation Center for Cancer Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Yuanyuan Zhang

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Qiang Shao

sq7166822@163.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Suzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QS. Performed the experiments: YC WY. Analyzed the data: YC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS JX TA YZ. Wrote the paper: QS YC.