About the Authors

Xia Rong

Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Rong, Ling Lu, Junzhi Wang

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Guangzhou Blood Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Ling Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Rong, Ling Lu, Junzhi Wang

Affiliation Center for Viral Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Junzhi Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Rong, Ling Lu, Junzhi Wang

Affiliation National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China

Huaping Xiong

Affiliation Guangzhou Blood Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jieting Huang

Affiliation Guangzhou Blood Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jinyan Chen

Affiliation Guangzhou Blood Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Ke Huang

Affiliation Guangzhou Blood Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Ru Xu

Affiliation Guangzhou Blood Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Min Wang

Affiliation Guangzhou Blood Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xuemei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Tai Guo

Affiliation National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China

Yueyue Liu

Affiliation National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China

Guoquan Gao

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yongshui Fu

fuyongshui1969@yahoo.com

Affiliation Guangzhou Blood Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Kenrad E. Nelson

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YF LL. Performed the experiments: XR HX JH JC KH RX MW XZ YL. Analyzed the data: JW GG KEN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TG YL. Wrote the paper: LL JH HX YF.