About the Authors

Xuelong Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuelong Zhang, Hong Qiao, Yanling Zhao

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Hong Qiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuelong Zhang, Hong Qiao, Yanling Zhao

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Yanling Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuelong Zhang, Hong Qiao, Yanling Zhao

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Xi Wang

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Haiming Sun

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

An Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Lidan Xu

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Donglin Sun

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Yan Jin

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Yang Yu

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Xiangning Meng

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Jing Bai

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Feng Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Songbin Fu

fusb@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang Higher Education Institutions, Harbin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SF XZ HQ. Performed the experiments: XZ HQ YZ XW AL LX. Analyzed the data: HS DS YJ YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XM JB FC. Wrote the paper: XZ HQ SF.