About the Authors

Junyao Duan

Affiliation School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Xu Bao

Affiliation School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Xin Ma

Affiliation Department of Urology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, PLA Medical School, Beijing, China

Yu Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, PLA Medical School, Beijing, China

Dong Ni

Affiliation Department of Urology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, PLA Medical School, Beijing, China

Hanfeng Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, PLA Medical School, Beijing, China

Fan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, PLA Medical School, Beijing, China

Qingshan Du

Affiliation Department of Urology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, PLA Medical School, Beijing, China

Yang Fan

Affiliation Department of Urology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, PLA Medical School, Beijing, China

Jianwen Chen

Affiliation Department of Urology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, PLA Medical School, Beijing, China

Shengpan Wu

Affiliation Department of Urology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, PLA Medical School, Beijing, China

Xintao Li

Affiliation Department of Urology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, PLA Medical School, Beijing, China

Yu Gao

Affiliation Department of Urology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, PLA Medical School, Beijing, China

Xu Zhang

xzhang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Urology, State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, PLA Medical School, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JD XB. Data curation: JD. Formal analysis: JD. Funding acquisition: DN XZ. Investigation: YF XB. Methodology: JD HW FZ. Project administration: YZ. Resources: QD. Software: XL YG. Supervision: DN. Validation: XM. Visualization: JC SW. Writing – original draft: JD XB. Writing – review & editing: JD.