About the Authors

Jie Qin

Affiliation The Department of Orthopedics, the Second Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Xijing He

xijing_h@vip.tom.com

Affiliation The Department of Orthopedics, the Second Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Dong Wang

Affiliation The Department of Orthopedics, the Second Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Peng Qi

Affiliation The Department of Orthopedics, the Second Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Lei Guo

Affiliation The Department of Orthopedics, the Second Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Sihua Huang

Affiliation The Department of Orthopedics, the Second Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Xuan Cai

Affiliation The Department of Orthopedics, the Second Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Haopeng Li

Affiliation The Department of Orthopedics, the Second Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Rui Wang

Affiliation The Department of Orthopedics, the Second Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XJH JQ. Performed the experiments: JQ DW PQ LG SHH HPL RW. Analyzed the data: JQ PQ XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PQ LG SHH RW. Wrote the paper: JQ XJH.