About the Authors

Yanliang Zhang

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China, Yunnan Institute of Laboratory Diagnosis, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China, Yunnan Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China

Qiuyue Xue

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China, Yunnan Institute of Laboratory Diagnosis, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China, Yunnan Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China

Guoqing Pan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China

Qing H. Meng

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiaoyu Tuo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China

Xuemei Cai

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China, Yunnan Institute of Laboratory Diagnosis, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China, Yunnan Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China

Zhenghui Chen

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China, Yunnan Institute of Laboratory Diagnosis, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China, Yunnan Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China

Ya Li

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China, Yunnan Institute of Laboratory Diagnosis, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China, Yunnan Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China

Tao Huang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China

Xincen Duan

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Somers, Wisconsin, United States of America

Yong Duan

duanyong7@139.com

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China, Yunnan Institute of Laboratory Diagnosis, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China, Yunnan Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Kunming, Yunnan Province, the People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YZ. Data curation: QX YL XC ZC. Formal analysis: YZ XD. Funding acquisition: YZ YD. Investigation: YZ QX. Methodology: YZ QX XC. Project administration: YZ YD. Resources: TH GP XT ZC. Software: YZ. Supervision: YZ YD. Validation: YZ QX. Visualization: YZ. Writing – original draft: YZ. Writing – review & editing: QM XD.