About the Authors

Xiaolong Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaolong Chen, Zhen Wang, Yangsheng Rong

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Zhen Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaolong Chen, Zhen Wang, Yangsheng Rong

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Yangsheng Rong

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaolong Chen, Zhen Wang, Yangsheng Rong

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Weng’an County People’s Hospital, Guizhou, China

Zhiqiang Zhu

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Zheng Peng

Roles Validation

Affiliation Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Kunyuan Huang

Roles Validation

Affiliation Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Guanyun Deng

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Di Liu

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Urology, People’s Hospital of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Kaili

Qing Wang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Urology, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Jianguo Zhu

Roles Writing – review & editing

tjjkh@sina.com (KHJ); 44844956@qq.com (KC); doctorzhujianguo@163.com (JGZ)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Kun Chen

Roles Writing – review & editing

tjjkh@sina.com (KHJ); 44844956@qq.com (KC); doctorzhujianguo@163.com (JGZ)

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang, China

Kehua Jiang

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

tjjkh@sina.com (KHJ); 44844956@qq.com (KC); doctorzhujianguo@163.com (JGZ)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.