About the Authors

Qinchuan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinchuan Li, Xiaoman Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiaoman Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinchuan Li, Xiaoman Li

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zhongliang Guo

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Feng Xu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Jingyan Xia

Affiliation Department of Radiation Therapy, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Zhongmin Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Tao Ren

rentaosh@126.com

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TR. Performed the experiments: QL XL. Analyzed the data: ZG. Wrote the paper: QL XL TR. Contributed analysis tools: FX JX. Contributed reagents and materials: ZL.