About the Authors

Junyi Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Junyi Jiang, Jinyi Li

Affiliation Public Health Institution, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jinyi Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Junyi Jiang, Jinyi Li

Affiliation Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Zhang Yunxia

Affiliation Department of Urology, Hebei General Hospital, Shijiazhuang City, People’s Republic of China

Hong Zhu

Affiliation Public Health Institution, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Junjiang Liu

junjiangliu67@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, Hebei General Hospital, Shijiazhuang City, People’s Republic of China

Chris Pumill

Affiliation Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J. Li J. Liu. Performed the experiments: JJ J. Li YZ. Analyzed the data: JJ J. Li. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJ HZ YZ. Wrote the manuscript: JJ J. Li HZ CP.