About the Authors

Peng Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Peng Yin, Qiunan Ji, Tongtong Li

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxin Road, Beijing, 100853, P.R. China, School of Medicine, Nankai University, No. 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, P.R. China

Qiunan Ji

Contributed equally to this work with: Peng Yin, Qiunan Ji, Tongtong Li

Affiliation School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Tongtong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Peng Yin, Qiunan Ji, Tongtong Li

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxin Road, Beijing, 100853, P.R. China, School of Medicine, Nankai University, No. 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, P.R. China

Jiantao Li

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxin Road, Beijing, 100853, P.R. China

Zhirui Li

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxin Road, Beijing, 100853, P.R. China

Jianheng Liu

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxin Road, Beijing, 100853, P.R. China

Guoqi Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxin Road, Beijing, 100853, P.R. China

Song Wang

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxin Road, Beijing, 100853, P.R. China, School of Medicine, Nankai University, No. 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, P.R. China

Lihai Zhang

pftang301@sina.cn (PFT); maozhiys@sina.com (ZM); zhanglihai74@126.com (LHZ)

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxin Road, Beijing, 100853, P.R. China

Zhi Mao

pftang301@sina.cn (PFT); maozhiys@sina.com (ZM); zhanglihai74@126.com (LHZ)

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxin Road, Beijing, 100853, P.R. China

Peifu Tang

pftang301@sina.cn (PFT); maozhiys@sina.com (ZM); zhanglihai74@126.com (LHZ)

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxin Road, Beijing, 100853, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PY QNJ ZM PFT. Performed the experiments: PY QNJ ZM PFT TTL LHZ. Analyzed the data: PY QNJ ZM PFT TTL LHZ JTL ZRL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PY QNJ ZM TTL LHZ JTL JHL GQW SW. Wrote the paper: PY QNJ ZM PFT. Revised the manuscript: PY QNJ TTL PFT LHZ JTL ZRL JHL SW.