About the Authors

Xuelian He

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuelian He, Wei Yin, Yan Ding, Shu-jian Cui

hexuelian2013@hotmail.com (XH); xhliang@whu.edu.cn (XL); ylzhao@imet.ecnu.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliation Clinical research center, Wuhan Children’s Hospital, No. 100 Hongkong Rd,Wuhan, China

Wei Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuelian He, Wei Yin, Yan Ding, Shu-jian Cui

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Wuhan Children’s Hospital, No. 100 Hongkong Rd,Wuhan, China

Yan Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuelian He, Wei Yin, Yan Ding, Shu-jian Cui

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Wuhan Children’s Hospital, No. 100 Hongkong Rd,Wuhan, China

Shu-jian Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuelian He, Wei Yin, Yan Ding, Shu-jian Cui

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology of Jiangsu Province, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China

Jiangwei Luan

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Wuhan Children’s Hospital, No. 100 Hongkong Rd,Wuhan, China

Peiwei Zhao

Affiliation Clinical research center, Wuhan Children’s Hospital, No. 100 Hongkong Rd,Wuhan, China

Xin Yue

Affiliation Clinical research center, Wuhan Children’s Hospital, No. 100 Hongkong Rd,Wuhan, China

Chunhua Yu

Affiliation Clinical research center, Wuhan Children’s Hospital, No. 100 Hongkong Rd,Wuhan, China

Xiaohui Laing

hexuelian2013@hotmail.com (XH); xhliang@whu.edu.cn (XL); ylzhao@imet.ecnu.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliation School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

YuLan Zhao

hexuelian2013@hotmail.com (XH); xhliang@whu.edu.cn (XL); ylzhao@imet.ecnu.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliation Institute of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH XL YZ WY JL YD. Performed the experiments: SC PZ XY JL. Analyzed the data: XH SC YD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XH SC CY JL YD. Wrote the paper: XH XL YZ WY YD.