About the Authors

Mingliang Li

Affiliations Department of Urology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Department of Urology, The First People's Hospital of Xiangtan City, Xiangtan, China

Yingbo Dai

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Jun Lei

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Jin Tang

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Yihong Zhou

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Bing Xia

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Yang Xia

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas–Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Guangming Yin

yingm75@126.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GMY. Data curation: MLL YBD GMY. Formal analysis: MLL YBD GMY. Funding acquisition: GMY. Investigation: MLL YBD JT YHZ BX YX JL. Methodology: YX GMY YBD. Project administration: GMY. Resources: GMY. Supervision: GMY. Validation: GMY MLL. Writing – original draft: MLL YBD GMY. Writing – review & editing: GMY.