About the Authors

Guang-xia Yang

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong university, Nantong, Jiangsu, China, Department of Rheumatology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University (Wuxi 4th People's Hospital), Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Yu-yin Xu

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong university, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Ya-ping Fan

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong university, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Jing Wang

Affiliation Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiao-lan Chen

chenxl8448@sina.com

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong university, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Yi-de Zhang

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong university, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Jian-hua Wu

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong university, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: X-LC G-XY. Performed the experiments: G-XY. Analyzed the data: GXY Y-YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-YX JW Y-DZ Y-PF J-HW. Wrote the paper: G-XY Y-YX.