About the Authors

Libing Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Libing Wang, Fan Yin, Xiaoxia Hu

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Second Military Medical University, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China

Fan Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Libing Wang, Fan Yin, Xiaoxia Hu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Second Military Medical University, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China

Xia Xu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Second Military Medical University, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China

Xiaoxia Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Libing Wang, Fan Yin, Xiaoxia Hu

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Second Military Medical University, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China

Dongbao Zhao

zhaodongbao@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Second Military Medical University, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW FY DZ. Performed the experiments: LW FY. Analyzed the data: LW FY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW FY. Wrote the paper: FY XH XX.