About the Authors

Jianqiang Mo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianqiang Mo, Wen Zhang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Orthopedic Institute, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Wen Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianqiang Mo, Wen Zhang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Orthopedic Institute, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Dongyan Zhong

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Orthopedic Institute, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Hao Xu

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Orthopedic Institute, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Lan Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Orthopedic Institute, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Jia Yu

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Orthopedic Institute, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Zongping Luo

zongping_luo@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Orthopedic Institute, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL JM WZ. Performed the experiments: JM WZ. Analyzed the data: JM WZ DZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW JY. Wrote the paper: JM WZ HX.