About the Authors

Haibing Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Haibing Chen, Zhi Zheng

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

Zhi Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Haibing Chen, Zhi Zheng

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, First People's Hospital of Shanghai Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Yan Huang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

Kaifeng Guo

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

Junxi Lu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

Lei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

Haoyong Yu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

Yuqian Bao

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

Weiping Jia

wpjia@sjtu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HC ZZ WJ. Performed the experiments: HC ZZ YH KG JL LZ HY YB. Analyzed the data: HC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZZ. Wrote the paper: HC ZZ.