About the Authors

Qi Quan

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Quan, Lei Hong

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Key Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Trauma &War Injuries PLA, Beijing Key Lab of Regenerative Medicine in Orthopedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Lei Hong

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Quan, Lei Hong

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Biao Chang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Key Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Trauma &War Injuries PLA, Beijing Key Lab of Regenerative Medicine in Orthopedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Ruoxi Liu

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Key Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Trauma &War Injuries PLA, Beijing Key Lab of Regenerative Medicine in Orthopedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Yun Zhu

Affiliation School of the Biomedical of Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong, China

Jiang Peng

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Key Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Trauma &War Injuries PLA, Beijing Key Lab of Regenerative Medicine in Orthopedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Qing Zhao

lushibi301@126.com (SL); zqmd304@126.com (QZ)

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Shibi Lu

lushibi301@126.com (SL); zqmd304@126.com (QZ)

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Key Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Trauma &War Injuries PLA, Beijing Key Lab of Regenerative Medicine in Orthopedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: QQ LH QZ SL. Data curation: QQ YZ RL. Formal analysis: QQ LH. Funding acquisition: QZ SL JP. Investigation: QQ LH BC. Methodology: QQ LH. Project administration: QQ BC. Resources: QZ SL JP. Software: QQ BC. Supervision: QQ SL QZ. Validation: QQ SL. Visualization: QQ LH YZ BC. Writing – original draft: QQ LH. Writing – review & editing: QQ LH.