About the Authors

Bin Yang

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 610041 Chengdu, China

Wei Wei

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.

Affiliation West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, 610041 Chengdu, China

Yunying Shi

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 610041 Chengdu, China

Zhuochun Huang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 610041 Chengdu, China

Bei Cai

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 610041 Chengdu, China

Junlong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 610041 Chengdu, China

Binwu Ying

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 610041 Chengdu, China

Lanlan Wang

wanglanlanhx@163.com

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 610041 Chengdu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Bin Yang WW YS ZH LW. Performed the experiments: Bin Yang YS ZH BC Binwu Yang LW. Analyzed the data: Bin Yang WW JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Bin Yang JZ Binwu Yang LW. Wrote the paper: Bin Yang WW Binwu Yang LW.