About the Authors

Heng Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Heng Liu, Ketao Wang

Affiliations Shenzhen Research Institute of Shandong University, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, Otolaryngology Key Lab of Ministry of Health, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

Ketao Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Heng Liu, Ketao Wang

Affiliation Shenzhen Research Institute of Shandong University, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Shuai Chen

Affiliation Otolaryngology Key Lab of Ministry of Health, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

Qian Sun

Affiliations Shenzhen Research Institute of Shandong University, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, Otolaryngology Key Lab of Ministry of Health, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

Yuankai Zhang

Affiliation Shenzhen Research Institute of Shandong University, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Long Chen

Affiliation Otolaryngology Key Lab of Ministry of Health, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

Xiulian Sun

xiulians@gmail.com

Affiliations Shenzhen Research Institute of Shandong University, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, Brain Research Institute, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XS. Data curation: XS HL KW SC QS. Formal analysis: LC. Funding acquisition: XS HL. Investigation: HL KW SC QS YZ. Methodology: HL SC QS. Project administration: XS HL. Resources: LC. Software: HL KW. Supervision: XS. Validation: XS SC QS. Visualization: HL KW. Writing – original draft: HL KW XS. Writing – review & editing: XS HL.