About the Authors

Xiang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang Li, Yuanyuan Liu, Qingbo Jiang, Weifeng Shi

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yuanyuan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang Li, Yuanyuan Liu, Qingbo Jiang, Weifeng Shi

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The the Huai-an First Affliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, Jiangsu, China

Xueling Hou

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Hongjun Peng

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Li Zhang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Qingbo Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang Li, Yuanyuan Liu, Qingbo Jiang, Weifeng Shi

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Mei Shi

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yun Ji

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yuyue Wang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Weifeng Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiang Li, Yuanyuan Liu, Qingbo Jiang, Weifeng Shi

shiweifeng67@163.com

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XL WS. Performed the experiments: YL XH HP. Analyzed the data: XL LZ QJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL MS YJ YW. Wrote the manuscript: XL WS.