About the Authors

Shujie Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Shujie Guo, Xiaobo Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiaobo Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Shujie Guo, Xiaobo Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Min Gao

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Hong Kong

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yuqiong Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Mingliang Gu

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Key Laboratory of Genome Science and Information, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaoqun Dong

niuwenquan@yahoo.cn (WN); xiaoqun_dong@mail.uri.edu (XD)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America

Wenquan Niu

niuwenquan@yahoo.cn (WN); xiaoqun_dong@mail.uri.edu (XD)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, 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: SG WN. Performed the experiments: XL MG HK YL. Analyzed the data: WN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG XD. Wrote the paper: WN XD. Collected and assembled the data: SG MG.