About the Authors

Hongtuan Zhang

Affiliation National Key Clinical Specialty of Urology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin Key Institute of Urology, Tianjin, China

Hui Ma

Affiliation Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, second hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Liang Li

Affiliation Laboratory of Population and Quantitative Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Zhihong Zhang

Affiliation National Key Clinical Specialty of Urology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin Key Institute of Urology, Tianjin, China

Yong Xu

xymnwk@163.com

Affiliation National Key Clinical Specialty of Urology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin Key Institute of Urology, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ HM YX. Performed the experiments: HZ YX LL ZZ. Analyzed the data: HZ HN YX LL ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ HM LL. Wrote the paper: HZ HM YX.