About the Authors

Shu Xia

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Xin Fan

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China

Zengguang Huang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Liang Xia

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Meng Xiao

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China

Rongchang Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Yingchun Xu

chao_sheep@263.net (CZ); xycpumch@139.com (YX)

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China

Chao Zhuo

chao_sheep@263.net (CZ); xycpumch@139.com (YX)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CZ YX. Performed the experiments: SX XF MX ZH LX. Analyzed the data: CZ SX RC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX CZ RC. Wrote the paper: SX CZ.