About the Authors

Zhihong Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihong Wu, Li Min

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Li Min

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihong Wu, Li Min

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Dafu Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Bone Tissue Engineering, Beijing Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Beijing, China

Dongsheng Hao

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Yuanhui Duan

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Guixing Qiu

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Yipeng Wang

wongyp@yeah.net

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW LM GQ YW. Performed the experiments: ZW LM DC DH YD. Analyzed the data: ZW LM DC DH YD GQ YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DH YD. Wrote the paper: ZW LM YW.