About the Authors

Siping Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Siping Li, Qi Peng

Affiliation Department of Laboratory, Dongguan Children's Hospital, Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Qi Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Siping Li, Qi Peng

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Dongguan Institute of Pediatrics, Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Shengyun Liao

Affiliation Shenzhen Yilifang Biotech CO., LTD., Shenzhen, China

Wenrui Li

Affiliation Department of Laboratory, Dongguan Children's Hospital, Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Qiang Ma

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Dongguan Institute of Pediatrics, Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Xiaomei Lu

lxm020@126.com

Affiliations Department of Laboratory, Dongguan Children's Hospital, Dongguan, Guangdong, China, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Dongguan Institute of Pediatrics, Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare the following interest: S Liao is affiliated with Shenzhen Yilifang Biotech CO., LTD. This does not alter our adherence to the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XL S Li. Formal analysis: XL QP QM. Funding acquisition: XL S Li QP WL QM. Investigation: S Liao QP WL QM. Methodology: XL S Liao. Project administration: XL S Li. Resources: XL S Li. Validation: XL. Visualization: S Li XL. Writing – original draft: QP XL.