About the Authors

Xiao-na Zhang

Affiliation From the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Ze-jun Ma

Affiliation From 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Key Laboratory of Hormone and Development, Ministry of Health, Metabolic Disease Hospital and Tianjin Institute of Endocrinology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Ying Wang

Affiliation From 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Key Laboratory of Hormone and Development, Ministry of Health, Metabolic Disease Hospital and Tianjin Institute of Endocrinology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Bei Sun

Affiliation From 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Key Laboratory of Hormone and Development, Ministry of Health, Metabolic Disease Hospital and Tianjin Institute of Endocrinology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Xin Guo

Affiliation From 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Key Laboratory of Hormone and Development, Ministry of Health, Metabolic Disease Hospital and Tianjin Institute of Endocrinology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Cong-qing Pan

cq.pan@163.com (CQP); xfx22081@vip.163.com (LMC)

Affiliation From 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Key Laboratory of Hormone and Development, Ministry of Health, Metabolic Disease Hospital and Tianjin Institute of Endocrinology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Li-ming Chen

cq.pan@163.com (CQP); xfx22081@vip.163.com (LMC)

Affiliation From 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Key Laboratory of Hormone and Development, Ministry of Health, Metabolic Disease Hospital and Tianjin Institute of Endocrinology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XNZ CQP LMC. Data curation: XNZ. Formal analysis: XNZ ZJM. Funding acquisition: CQP XNZ. Investigation: XNZ ZJM YW XG. Methodology: XNZ ZJM YW XG. Project administration: XNZ CQP LMC. Resources: XNZ CQP LMC BS. Supervision: CQP LMC. Validation: BS XG. Visualization: XNZ. Writing – original draft: XNZ.