About the Authors

Xi Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xi Li, Xiaobo Tian

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xiaobo Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Xi Li, Xiaobo Tian

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Bo Zhang

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Yanqi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, College of Preventive Medicine, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Jieping Chen

chenjpxn@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XL XT JC. Performed the experiments: XL XT BZ. Analyzed the data: XL YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BZ. Wrote the paper: XL XT JC.