About the Authors

Lin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Wang, Guiying Wang

Affiliation Endocrinology Department, Shanghai East Hospital, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Signaling and Disease Research, School of Life Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Guiying Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Wang, Guiying Wang

Affiliation Endocrinology Department, Shanghai East Hospital, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Signaling and Disease Research, School of Life Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Chenqi Lu

Affiliation Laboratory of Population and Quantitative Genetics, Institute of Biostatistics, SKLGE, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Bo Feng

fengbo@medmail.com (BF); jhkang@tongji.edu.cn (JK)

Affiliation Endocrinology Department, Shanghai East Hospital, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Signaling and Disease Research, School of Life Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Jiuhong Kang

fengbo@medmail.com (BF); jhkang@tongji.edu.cn (JK)

Affiliation Endocrinology Department, Shanghai East Hospital, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Signaling and Disease Research, School of Life Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW GW. Performed the experiments: LW GW. Analyzed the data: LW GW CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL BF JK. Wrote the paper: LW GW CL JK. Financial support: JK.