About the Authors

Jingyuan Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingyuan Xie, Krzysztof Kiryluk

Affiliations Nephrology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Krzysztof Kiryluk

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingyuan Xie, Krzysztof Kiryluk

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Weiming Wang

Affiliation Nephrology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zhaohui Wang

Affiliation Nephrology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Shanmai Guo

Affiliation Nephrology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Pingyan Shen

Affiliation Nephrology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Hong Ren

Affiliation Nephrology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiaoxia Pan

Affiliation Nephrology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiaonong Chen

Affiliation Nephrology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Wen Zhang

Affiliation Nephrology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiao Li

Affiliation Nephrology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Hao Shi

Affiliation Nephrology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yifu Li

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Ali G. Gharavi

ag2239@columbia.edu (AG); cnrj100@126.com (NC)

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Nan Chen

ag2239@columbia.edu (AG); cnrj100@126.com (NC)

Affiliation Nephrology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC AG KK JX. Performed the experiments: JX KK WW ZW. Analyzed the data: JX KK AG YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NC JX WW ZW PS SG HR XP XC WZ XL HS. Wrote the paper: KK JX AG.