About the Authors

Man-Li Tong

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Li Tong, Li-Rong Lin, Gui-Li Liu

Affiliation Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Li-Rong Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Li Tong, Li-Rong Lin, Gui-Li Liu

Affiliation Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Gui-Li Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Li Tong, Li-Rong Lin, Gui-Li Liu

Affiliation Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Hui-Lin Zhang

Affiliation Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Yan-Li Zeng

Affiliation Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Wei-Hong Zheng

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Zhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Li-Li Liu

yangtianci@xmu.edu.cn (TCY); liulili@xmu.edu.cn (LLL)

Affiliations Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, Xiamen Zhongshan Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Xiamen, China

Tian-Ci Yang

yangtianci@xmu.edu.cn (TCY); liulili@xmu.edu.cn (LLL)

Affiliations Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital, Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, Xiamen Zhongshan Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Xiamen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TCY LLL MLT LRL GLL. Performed the experiments: MLT GLL HLZ YLZ WHZ. Analyzed the data: TCY LLL LRL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLT HLZ GLL YLZ. Wrote the paper: TCY LLL MLT.