About the Authors

Qiu-Hua Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiu-Hua Liang, Yi Jiang

Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Yi Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiu-Hua Liang, Yi Jiang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Xiao Zhu

Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Rong-Rong Cui

Affiliations Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China, Department of Pediatrics, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Guan-Ying Liu

Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Yuan Liu

Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Shan-Shan Wu

Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Xiao-Bo Liao

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Hui Xie

Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Hou-De Zhou

Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Xian-Ping Wu

Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Ling-Qing Yuan

allenylq@hotmail.com (LQY); eyliao007@yahoo.com.cn (EYL)

Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Er-Yuan Liao

allenylq@hotmail.com (LQY); eyliao007@yahoo.com.cn (EYL)

Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Endocrinology, the Second Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LQY EYL. Performed the experiments: QHL YJ XZ RRC GYL SSW YL. Analyzed the data: HX HDZ XPW XBL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HX HDZ XPW. Wrote the paper: QHL LQY EYL.