About the Authors

Gan Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Gan Yu, Weimin Yao

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Weimin Yao

Contributed equally to this work with: Gan Yu, Weimin Yao

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Ji Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology and Helen-Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Xin Ma

Affiliation Department of Urology, PLA General Hospital, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Beijing, China

Wei Xiao

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Heng Li

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Ding Xia

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yang Yang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Kangli Deng

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Haibing Xiao

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Bohan Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Xiaolin Guo

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Wei Guan

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Zhiquan Hu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yinqi Bai

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Hua Xu

xuhua@mail.hust.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jihong Liu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Xu Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology, PLA General Hospital, Military Postgraduate Medical College, Beijing, China

Zhangqun Ye

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: H. Xu JL XZ ZY. Performed the experiments: GY WY JW XM WX HL. Analyzed the data: DX YY KD H. Xiao. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XG WG ZH. Wrote the manuscript: H. Xu GY WY JW. Sequence analysis: BW YB.