About the Authors

Shifeng Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shifeng Huang, Wei Dai

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Wei Dai

Contributed equally to this work with: Shifeng Huang, Wei Dai

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Shan Sun

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xiaojiao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Liping Zhang

liuzhangcq@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LPZ SFH. Performed the experiments: SS WD. Analyzed the data: XJZ WD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XJZ. Wrote the paper: SFH.