About the Authors

Zhonghan Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhonghan Wu, Jianyang Li

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Institute of Orthopaedics, Research Center for Translational Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Jianyang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhonghan Wu, Jianyang Li

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Institute of Orthopaedics, Research Center for Translational Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Shitan Mao

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Institute of Orthopaedics, Research Center for Translational Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Jingtao Lu

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Institute of Orthopaedics, Research Center for Translational Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Yao Zhao

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Institute of Orthopaedics, Research Center for Translational Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Shuisheng Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Institute of Orthopaedics, Research Center for Translational Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Dasheng Tian

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Institute of Orthopaedics, Research Center for Translational Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Juehua Jing

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Institute of Orthopaedics, Research Center for Translational Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Rongguang Ao

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Department of Orthopaedics, Shanghai Seventh People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China

Xinzhong Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

xuahmu_edu@163.com

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Institute of Orthopaedics, Research Center for Translational Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.