About the Authors

Zheng Peng

‡ ZP and YS are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China

Yifan Sun

‡ ZP and YS are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Liuzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China

Xiaolan Lv

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Liuzhou Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China

Hongyu Zhang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Liuzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China

Chunming Liu

daishm@sina.com (SD); zyyliuchunming@126.com (CL)

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Liuzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China

Shengming Dai

daishm@sina.com (SD); zyyliuchunming@126.com (CL)

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD CL. Performed the experiments: ZP YS. Analyzed the data: YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ. Wrote the paper: YS XL.