About the Authors

Na Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Na Li, Jian Yu

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China

Jian Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Na Li, Jian Yu

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, P.R. China

Xiang Cao

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China

Qiu-Yue Wu

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China

Wei-Wei Li

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China

Tian-Fu Li

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China

Cui Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China

Ying-Xia Cui

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China

Xiao-Jun Li

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China

Zhi-Min Yin

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China

Xin-Yi Xia

xinyixia78@gmail.com

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XYX XJL ZMY. Performed the experiments: NL JY XC QYW WWL TFL CZ. Analyzed the data: XYX XJL YXC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XYX XJL. Wrote the paper: NL XYX.