About the Authors

Ming Liao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Liao, Xianghua Huang

Affiliations Institute of Urology and Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China

Xianghua Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Liao, Xianghua Huang

Affiliations Urology Department, Guigang People’s Hospital, Guigang, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China

Yong Gao

Affiliations Institute of Urology and Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, Fudan-VARI Center for Genetic Epidemiology, School of Life Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Aihua Tan

Affiliations Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, Center for Metabolic Disease and Diabetes, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China

Zheng Lu

Affiliations Institute of Urology and Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China

Chunlei Wu

Affiliations Institute of Urology and Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China

Youjie Zhang

Affiliations Institute of Urology and Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China

Xiaobo Yang

Affiliations Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, Department of Occupational Health and Environmental Health, School of Public Health of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China

Haiying Zhang

Affiliations Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, Department of Occupational Health and Environmental Health, School of Public Health of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China

Xue Qin

Affiliations Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China

Zengnan Mo

zengnanmo@hotmail.com

Affiliations Institute of Urology and Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, Center for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZM ML XH. Performed the experiments: XQ ZL CW YZ ML. Analyzed the data: XY HZ ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG AT. Wrote the paper: ZM ML XH.