About the Authors

Xiaodong Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaodong Jia, Zhen Wang, Lin Bai

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Joint Laboratory for Translational Medicine Research, Liaocheng People’s Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Zhen Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaodong Jia, Zhen Wang, Lin Bai

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neck- Shoulder and Lumbocrural Pain Hospital, Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Lin Bai

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaodong Jia, Zhen Wang, Lin Bai

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Traditional Chinese Medicine Innovation Research Institute, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, China

Jianmei Wei

Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Joint Laboratory for Translational Medicine Research, Liaocheng People’s Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Xizi Wang

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Joint Laboratory for Translational Medicine Research, Liaocheng People’s Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Zhaona Song

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Joint Laboratory for Translational Medicine Research, Liaocheng People’s Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Xianchao Guo

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Traditional Chinese Medicine Innovation Research Institute, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, China

Runze Jiang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

qiangzhang72@126.com; solon.jiang@gmail.com

Affiliation Traditional Chinese Medicine Innovation Research Institute, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, China

Qiang Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

qiangzhang72@126.com; solon.jiang@gmail.com

Affiliation Joint Laboratory for Translational Medicine Research, Liaocheng People’s Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.