About the Authors

Xin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Wang, Aixia Zhang

drwangxin@gmail.com (XW); champe@u.washington.edu (CSH)

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Jiangsu Province Hospital of TCM, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Aixia Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Wang, Aixia Zhang

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yu Liu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, 2nd Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Shi Chen

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Jiangsu Province Hospital of TCM, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Zhenqing Feng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Antibody Technology of Ministry of Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Wenbin Shang

Affiliation Medical Research Center, First College of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Marlena Maziarz

Affiliation University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jared Radtke

Affiliation University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christiane S. Hampe

drwangxin@gmail.com (XW); champe@u.washington.edu (CSH)

Affiliation University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW AZ YL ZF WS CSH. Performed the experiments: XW JR CSH SC. Analyzed the data: XW MM CSH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW CSH. Wrote the paper: XW CSH.