About the Authors

Yi-lun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-lun Wang, Chao Zeng

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, China

Chao Zeng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-lun Wang, Chao Zeng

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, China

Jie Wei

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, China

Tuo Yang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, China

Hui Li

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, China

Zhen-han Deng

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, China

Ye Yang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, China

Yi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, China

Xiang Ding

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, China

Dong-xing Xie

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, China

Tu-bao Yang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, China

Guang-hua Lei

lgh9640@sina.cn

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YLW CZ GHL TBY. Performed the experiments: YLW CZ CHL TBY. Analyzed the data: JW ZHD YY YZ XD DXX. Wrote the paper: YLW CZ. Read and approved the final manuscript: YLW CZ JW TY HL ZHD YY YZ XD DXX TBY GHL.