About the Authors

Guosong Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guosong Jiang, Liduan Zheng

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Liduan Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Guosong Jiang, Liduan Zheng

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, Human Disease Related Gene Research Group, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Jiarui Pu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Hong Mei

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Jun Zhao

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Kai Huang

Affiliations Human Disease Related Gene Research Group, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Fuqing Zeng

zengfuqingunion@hotmail.com (FQZ) (FZ); qs_tong@hotmail.com (QST) (QT)

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Qiangsong Tong

zengfuqingunion@hotmail.com (FQZ) (FZ); qs_tong@hotmail.com (QST) (QT)

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, Human Disease Related Gene Research Group, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QST. Performed the experiments: GSJ LDZ JRP HM JZ. Analyzed the data: QST FQZ KH. Wrote the paper: QST GSJ LDZ.