About the Authors

Xin-Xin Wen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin-Xin Wen, Fa-Qi Wang

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Fa-Qi Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin-Xin Wen, Fa-Qi Wang

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Chao Xu

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Zi-Xiang Wu

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Yang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Ya-Fei Feng

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Ya-Bo Yan

yanyabo@gmail.com (YBY); leiwei@fmmu.edu.cn (WL)

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Wei Lei

yanyabo@gmail.com (YBY); leiwei@fmmu.edu.cn (WL)

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XXW WL YBY. Performed the experiments: XXW FQW CX YBY. Analyzed the data: XXW YBY YFF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ ZXW WL. Wrote the paper: XXW YBY.