About the Authors

Ying Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China

Guihong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Guihong Li, Siyu Yang, Xiaoyi Gu, Xinyu Li, Mingyang Liu, Xiujuan Wu

Affiliation Norman Bethune Health Science Center, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Siyu Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guihong Li, Siyu Yang, Xiaoyi Gu, Xinyu Li, Mingyang Liu, Xiujuan Wu

Affiliation Norman Bethune Health Science Center, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Xiaoyi Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guihong Li, Siyu Yang, Xiaoyi Gu, Xinyu Li, Mingyang Liu, Xiujuan Wu

Affiliation Norman Bethune Health Science Center, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Xinyu Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Guihong Li, Siyu Yang, Xiaoyi Gu, Xinyu Li, Mingyang Liu, Xiujuan Wu

Affiliation Norman Bethune Health Science Center, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Mingyang Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guihong Li, Siyu Yang, Xiaoyi Gu, Xinyu Li, Mingyang Liu, Xiujuan Wu

Affiliation Norman Bethune Health Science Center, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Xiujuan Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guihong Li, Siyu Yang, Xiaoyi Gu, Xinyu Li, Mingyang Liu, Xiujuan Wu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China

Yun Guan

Affiliation Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Rayomand Press

Affiliation Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Jie Zhu

Affiliations Department of Neurology, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Hong-Liang Zhang

drzhl@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Neurology, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW HLZ. Analyzed the data: YW YG. Wrote the paper: YW RP JZ HLZ. Collected clinical data: GHL SYY XYG XYL MYL XJW.