About the Authors

He Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: He Cui, Ling Wang

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics and Developmental Biology, Medical School of Southeast University, The Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Diseases, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210009, China

Ling Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: He Cui, Ling Wang

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics and Developmental Biology, Medical School of Southeast University, The Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Diseases, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210009, China

Pihai Gong

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics and Developmental Biology, Medical School of Southeast University, The Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Diseases, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210009, China

Chengcheng Zhao

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics and Developmental Biology, Medical School of Southeast University, The Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Diseases, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210009, China

Shaodan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics and Developmental Biology, Medical School of Southeast University, The Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Diseases, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210009, China

Kun Zhang

Affiliation The 3rd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University (Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital), Harbin, 150081, China

Rongping Zhou

Affiliation The Affiliated Jiangning Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210000, China

Zhujiang Zhao

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics and Developmental Biology, Medical School of Southeast University, The Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Diseases, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210009, China

Hong Fan

fanh@seu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics and Developmental Biology, Medical School of Southeast University, The Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Diseases, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210009, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HF. Performed the experiments: HC LW CCZ SDZ. Analyzed the data: HC PHG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KZ RPZ ZJZ. Wrote the paper: HC HF.