About the Authors

Ying Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Pan, Qianshan Tao

Affiliation Department of Hematology, the Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University, and Hematology Research Center, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China

Qianshan Tao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Pan, Qianshan Tao

Affiliation Department of Hematology, the Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University, and Hematology Research Center, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China

Huiping Wang

Affiliation Department of Hematology, the Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University, and Hematology Research Center, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China

Shudao Xiong

Affiliation Department of Hematology, the Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University, and Hematology Research Center, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China

Rui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Hematology, the Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University, and Hematology Research Center, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China

Tianping Chen

Affiliation Department of Hematology, the Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University, and Hematology Research Center, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China

Lili Tao

Affiliation Department of Hematology, the Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University, and Hematology Research Center, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China

Zhimin Zhai

zzm889@126.com

Affiliation Department of Hematology, the Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University, and Hematology Research Center, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZMZ YP QT. Performed the experiments: QT YP HW SX RZ TC LT. Analyzed the data: ZMZ YP QT SX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YP QT. Wrote the paper: ZMZ YP QT.