About the Authors

Shangqian Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shangqian Wang, Qiang Cao, Xiaoxiang Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Qiang Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Shangqian Wang, Qiang Cao, Xiaoxiang Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xiaoxiang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shangqian Wang, Qiang Cao, Xiaoxiang Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Yangzhou No.1 People’s Hospital, Yangzhou, China

Bingjie Li

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Min Tang

Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wanqing Yuan

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, The Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

Jianzheng Fang

Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jian Qian

Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Chao Qin

zhangweinjmu@gmail.com (WZ); qinchao@njmu.edu.cn (CQ)

Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wei Zhang

zhangweinjmu@gmail.com (WZ); qinchao@njmu.edu.cn (CQ)

Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Provided software analysis: BJL SQW. Conceived and designed the experiments: QC CQ WZ. Performed the experiments: SQW QC XXW. Analyzed the data: SQW QC BJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT JZF JQ. Wrote the paper: SQW XXW WQY.