About the Authors

Hui Yang

Affiliations Laboratory Medical Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, Central Laboratory, Chaozhou Central Hospital Affiliated to Southern Medical University, Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China

Qian Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Wang, Li-Ye Yang

nfky_well@163.com (QW); yangleeyee@sina.com (LY)

Affiliation Laboratory Medical Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China

Lei Zheng

Affiliation Laboratory Medical Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China

Min Lin

Affiliation Central Laboratory, Chaozhou Central Hospital Affiliated to Southern Medical University, Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China

Xiang-bin Zheng

Affiliation Central Laboratory, Chaozhou Central Hospital Affiliated to Southern Medical University, Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China

Fen Lin

Affiliation Central Laboratory, Chaozhou Central Hospital Affiliated to Southern Medical University, Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China

Li-Ye Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Wang, Li-Ye Yang

nfky_well@163.com (QW); yangleeyee@sina.com (LY)

Affiliation Central Laboratory, Chaozhou Central Hospital Affiliated to Southern Medical University, Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QW LY LZ HY. Performed the experiments: HY ML XZ FL. Analyzed the data: HY LY ML LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QW LY. Wrote the paper: HY.