About the Authors

Yonggang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yonggang Zhang, Hongling Yang, Yan Long

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Central Hospital of Longhua New District, Shenzhen, 518110, China

Hongling Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yonggang Zhang, Hongling Yang, Yan Long

hlyang62@sina.com

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510623, China

Yan Long

Contributed equally to this work with: Yonggang Zhang, Hongling Yang, Yan Long

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510623, China

Qingling Ma

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510623, China

Ruihua Chen

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 511436, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HLY YL YGZ. Performed the experiments: QLM YGZ HLY YL RHC. Analyzed the data: YGZ HLY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QLM YGZ HLY YL. Wrote the paper: YGZ HLY.