About the Authors

Caiyun Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Caiyun Wu, Cheng Wang, Xiaocui Guan

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jinling Hospital, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Cheng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Caiyun Wu, Cheng Wang, Xiaocui Guan

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jinling Hospital, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for microRNA Biology and Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Xiaocui Guan

Contributed equally to this work with: Caiyun Wu, Cheng Wang, Xiaocui Guan

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jinling Hospital, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Yuxiu Liu

Affiliation Department of Scientific Research Management, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Demin Li

Affiliation Department of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Xiaojun Zhou

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Jinling Hospital, Clinical School of Medical College, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Yanni Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Hospital of Xuzhou, Xuzhou, China

Xi Chen

Affiliation Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for microRNA Biology and Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Junjun Wang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jinling Hospital, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Ke Zen

zchunni27@hotmail.com (CZ); cyzhang@nju.edu.cn (CYZ); kzen@nju. edu.cn (KZ)

Affiliation Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for microRNA Biology and Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Chen-Yu Zhang

zchunni27@hotmail.com (CZ); cyzhang@nju.edu.cn (CYZ); kzen@nju. edu.cn (KZ)

Affiliation Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for microRNA Biology and Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Chunni Zhang

zchunni27@hotmail.com (CZ); cyzhang@nju.edu.cn (CYZ); kzen@nju. edu.cn (KZ)

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory, Jinling Hospital, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for microRNA Biology and Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CZ CYZ KZ. Performed the experiments: C. Wu XG C. Wang. Analyzed the data: XG C. Wang XC YL JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL XZ YZ. Wrote the paper: CZ CYZ KZ C. Wang.