About the Authors

Wei Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Zhao, Cheng Han, Xiaoguang Shi

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Endocrine Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China

Cheng Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Zhao, Cheng Han, Xiaoguang Shi

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Endocrine Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China

Xiaoguang Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Zhao, Cheng Han, Xiaoguang Shi

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Endocrine Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China

Chuhui Xiong

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Endocrine Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China

Jie Sun

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Endocrine Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China

Zhongyan Shan

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Endocrine Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China

Weiping Teng

twp@vip.163.com

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Endocrinology, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Endocrine Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WPT ZYS. Performed the experiments: WZ CH XGS. Analyzed the data: WZ CH CHX JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WPT. Wrote the paper: WZ CH. Revised the language/article: WPT WZ CH XGS.