About the Authors

Minjie Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Minjie Gao, Guang Yang

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Guang Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Minjie Gao, Guang Yang

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Van S. Tompkins

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Lu Gao

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiaosong Wu

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yi Tao

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiaojing Hu

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jun Hou

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Ying Han

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Hongwei Xu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Fenghuang Zhan

shijumei@hotmail.com (JMS); fenghuang-zhan@uiowa.edu (FHZ)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Jumei Shi

shijumei@hotmail.com (JMS); fenghuang-zhan@uiowa.edu (FHZ)

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JmS FhZ MjG. Performed the experiments: MjG GY. Analyzed the data: MjG GY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VST LG XsW YT XjH JH YH HwX. Wrote the manuscript: JmS FhZ MjG GY. Obtaining funding: JmS FhZ XjH VST. Read and approved the final paper: MjG GY VST LG XsW YT XjH JH YH HwX JmS FhZ.