About the Authors

Wei Ge

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Ge, Hanzhe Kuang

Affiliations Institute for Fetology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou City, Jiangsu, China, Department of Neurology, the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu, China, Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou City, Jiangsu, China

Hanzhe Kuang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Ge, Hanzhe Kuang

Affiliation Institute for Fetology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou City, Jiangsu, China

Bin Wei

Affiliation Institute for Fetology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou City, Jiangsu, China

Le Bo

Affiliation Institute for Fetology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou City, Jiangsu, China

Zhice Xu

Affiliation Institute for Fetology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou City, Jiangsu, China

Xingshun Xu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou City, Jiangsu, China

Deqin Geng

sunmiaosun@yahoo.com (MS); gengdeqin@hotmail.com (DG)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu, China

Miao Sun

sunmiaosun@yahoo.com (MS); gengdeqin@hotmail.com (DG)

Affiliation Institute for Fetology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou City, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS XX DG. Performed the experiments: WG HK BW LB. Analyzed the data: MS XX DG ZX. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MS XX. Clinical data and blood sample collection: WG DG.