About the Authors

Cheng Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Han, Xue He, Xinghai Xia

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

Xue He

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Han, Xue He, Xinghai Xia

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

Xinghai Xia

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Han, Xue He, Xinghai Xia

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

Yongze Li

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

xiaoguangshi_cmu@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

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

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 XGS. Performed the experiments: CH XH XHX. Analyzed the data: CH XH XHX YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WPT XGS. Wrote the paper: CH XH. Revised the language/article: WPT XGS CH XH.