About the Authors

Zhihui Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihui Li, Min Wu, Peng Wang

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Baotou Medical College, Inner Mongolia, Baotou, China

Min Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihui Li, Min Wu, Peng Wang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Baotou Medical College, Inner Mongolia, Baotou, China

Peng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihui Li, Min Wu, Peng Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Baotou Medical College, Inner Mongolia, Baotou, China

Wei Xie

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Hypoxic Translational Medicine, Baotou Medical College, Inner Mongolia, Baotou, China

Yunqi Hua

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Baotou Cancer Hospital, Baotou, China

Guo Shao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

zhwyjs@163.com (HZ); shao.guo.china@gmail.com (GS)

‡ GS and HZ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, the Third People’s Hospital of Longgang District, Shenzhen, China

Hongwei Zhu

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

zhwyjs@163.com (HZ); shao.guo.china@gmail.com (GS)

‡ GS and HZ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Baotou Medical College, Inner Mongolia, Baotou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.