About the Authors
- Wei-jie Guan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-jie Guan, Yong-hua Gao, Gang Xu
Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Yong-hua Gao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-jie Guan, Yong-hua Gao, Gang Xu
Affiliation Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Gang Xu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-jie Guan, Yong-hua Gao, Gang Xu
Affiliation Guangzhou First People's Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Zhi-ya Lin
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Yan Tang
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Hui-min Li
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Zhi-min Lin
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Jin-ping Zheng
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Rong-chang Chen
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* E-mail: nanshan@vip.163.com (NSZ); chenrc@vip.163.com (RCC)
Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Nan-shan Zhong
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* E-mail: nanshan@vip.163.com (NSZ); chenrc@vip.163.com (RCC)
Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Competing Interests
Profs. Zhong and Chen declare that they have received Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University ITR0961, The National Key Technology R&D Program of the 12th National Five-year Development Plan 2012BAI05B01 and National Key Scientific & Technology Support Program: Collaborative innovation of Clinical Research for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer No. 2013BAI09B09. All other authors declared no potential conflict of interest. None of the funding sources had any role in the study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: WJG YHG GX RCC NSZ. Performed the experiments: WJG YHG GX HML ZYL YT JPZ. Analyzed the data: WJG YHG GX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJG YHG GX HML ZYL ZML. Wrote the paper: WJG YHG GX. Provided critical review of the manuscript: RCC NSZ. Approved the final submission: RCC NSZ.