About the Authors
- Jiajia Gao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jiajia Gao, Xueping Qiu
Current address: Laboratory of Clinical Immunology, Wuhan No. 1 Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, Hubei, PR China
Affiliation Center for Gene Diagnosis, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Xueping Qiu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jiajia Gao, Xueping Qiu
Affiliation Center for Gene Diagnosis, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Xuebin Wang
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Affiliation Center for Gene Diagnosis, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Chunyan Peng
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Affiliation Center for Gene Diagnosis, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Fang Zheng
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* E-mail: zhengfang@whu.edu.cn
Affiliation Center for Gene Diagnosis, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FZ. Performed the experiments: JJG XPQ. Analyzed the data: JJG XPQ XBW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XBW CYP. Wrote the paper: JJG FZ. Undertook BSP, genotyping and qPCR: JJG. Undertook LC-ESI-MS/MS: XPQ. Collected samples and extracted DNA and RNA: JJG XPQ. Drafted the manuscript: JJG FZ. Helped with genotyping and contributed to the acquisition of clinical data: XBW CYP. Designed the project: FZ. Read and approved the final manuscript: JJG XPQ XBW CYP FZ.