About the Authors

Caixia Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Caixia Wang, Xun Liu, Yongming Zhou

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xun Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Caixia Wang, Xun Liu, Yongming Zhou

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Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yongming Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Caixia Wang, Xun Liu, Yongming Zhou

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Tianyou Hospital, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Shaomin Li

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yanbing Chen

Affiliation Medical Genetics Center, Guangdong Women and Children Hospital, Guangzhou, China

Yanni Wang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Tanqi Lou

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Affiliation Department of Nephrology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CXW XL YMZ TQL. Performed the experiments: CXW SML YNW. Analyzed the data: CXW YBC SML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YNW YBC CXW. Wrote the paper: CXW XL.