About the Authors

Hui Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Yang, Huanhuan Chen

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Huanhuan Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Yang, Huanhuan Chen

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hongwei Guo

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wen Li

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jinmei Tang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Bojin Xu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Minne Sun

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Guoxian Ding

Affiliation Department of Gerontology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Lin Jiang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Dai Cui

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xuqin Zheng

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yu Duan

duanyu@medmail.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HY HHC HWG WL JMT BJX MNS GXD LJ DC XQZ YD. Performed the experiments: HY HHC HWG WL JMT BJX MNS GXD LJ DC XQZ YD. Analyzed the data: HY HHC HWG WL JMT BJX MNS GXD LJ DC XQZ YD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HY HHC HWG WL JMT BJX MNS GXD LJ DC XQZ YD. Wrote the paper: HY HHC HWG WL JMT BJX MNS GXD LJ DC XQZ YD.