About the Authors

Lifang Shuai

Contributed equally to this work with: Lifang Shuai, Mingyu Xu, Nana Pei

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation South China Institute of Biomedicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Mingyu Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lifang Shuai, Mingyu Xu, Nana Pei

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation School of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Nana Pei

Contributed equally to this work with: Lifang Shuai, Mingyu Xu, Nana Pei

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Cheng Zhu

Roles Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation School of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Marwa Belghait

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zhiming Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation School of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jinlong Li

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hongwei Li

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* hongwei1@yahoo.com (HL); myy0766@smu.edu.cn (YM); dhy48321@smu.edu.cn (HD)

Affiliations South China Institute of Biomedicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, School of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yingying Mao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* hongwei1@yahoo.com (HL); myy0766@smu.edu.cn (YM); dhy48321@smu.edu.cn (HD)

Affiliation South China Institute of Biomedicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hongyan Du

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* hongwei1@yahoo.com (HL); myy0766@smu.edu.cn (YM); dhy48321@smu.edu.cn (HD)

Affiliation School of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.