About the Authors

Ran Meng

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China, Department of Medical Genetics, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Dalong Zhu

zhudldr@gmail.com (DLZ); wangyap@nju.edu.cn (YPW)

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

Yan Bi

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

Donghui Yang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

Yaping Wang

zhudldr@gmail.com (DLZ); wangyap@nju.edu.cn (YPW)

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM DLZ YPW. Performed the experiments: RM DHY. Analyzed the data: RM YB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM DLZ YPW. Wrote the paper: RM DLZ.