About the Authors

Zesong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zesong Li, Jun Xie

lzssc@yahoo.com (ZL); caizhiming2000@yahoo.com.cn (ZC)

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Genitourinary Tumor, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Jun Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Zesong Li, Jun Xie

Affiliations Guandong Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, China, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Jianting Wu

Affiliation Guandong Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, China

Wenjie Li

Affiliation Department of Urology, Suzhou municipal Hospital, Suzhou, Anhui, China

Liping Nie

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Xiaojuan Sun

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Genitourinary Tumor, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Aifa Tang

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Genitourinary Tumor, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Xianxin Li

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Ren Liu

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Genitourinary Tumor, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Hongbing Mei

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Genitourinary Tumor, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Feng Wang

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Genitourinary Tumor, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Zhiping Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Second Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Yaoting Gui

Affiliation Guandong Key Laboratory of Male Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center, Shenzhen, China

Zhiming Cai

lzssc@yahoo.com (ZL); caizhiming2000@yahoo.com.cn (ZC)

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Genitourinary Tumor, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZC YG ZL. Performed the experiments: JX JW WL LN XS AT XL RL FW HM ZL ZW. Analyzed the data: ZL JX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JX JW WL. Wrote the paper: ZL ZC.