About the Authors

Yanfen Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanfen Ma, Jian Hu, Ning Zhang

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, P.R. China, Health Science Center of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, P.R. China

Jian Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanfen Ma, Jian Hu, Ning Zhang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, P.R. China

Ning Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanfen Ma, Jian Hu, Ning Zhang

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, P.R. China, Health Science Center of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, P.R. China

Xinran Dong

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, School of Life Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Ying Li

Affiliations Health Science Center of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, P.R. China, SHAANXI Kang Fu Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, P.R. China

Bo Yang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, P.R. China

Weidong Tian

weidong.tian@fudan.edu.cn (WT); 1493722680@qq.com (XW)

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, School of Life Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Xiaoqin Wang

weidong.tian@fudan.edu.cn (WT); 1493722680@qq.com (XW)

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW WT YM JH NZ. Performed the experiments: YM JH NZ. Analyzed the data: XD YL BY. Wrote the paper: YM JH NZ XD WT XW.