About the Authors
- Lishi Wang
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Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery and BME, Campbell-Clinic, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Basic Medical Research, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia, China
- Yan Jiao
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Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery and BME, Campbell-Clinic, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Mudanjiang Medical College, Mudanjiang, PR China
- Yanhong Cao
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Affiliations Institute of Kaschin-Beck Disease, Center for Endemic Disease Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Medical University; Key Laboratory of Etiologic Epidemiology, Education Bureau of Heilongjiang Province and Ministry of Health (23618104), Harbin, China, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and BME, Campbell-Clinic, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
- Gaifen Liu
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Affiliation Department. of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Yongjun Wang
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Affiliation Department. of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Weikuan Gu
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* E-mail: wgu@uthsc.edu
Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery and BME, Campbell-Clinic, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LSW JJ YJW WKG. Performed the experiments: LSW YHC GFL. Analyzed the data: LSW YJ WKG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WKG YJW. Wrote the paper: LSW YHC GFL WKG.