About the Authors
- Xiaoling Cai
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Affiliation Peking University People’s Hospital, Endocrine & Metabolism Department, Beijing, China
- Wenjia Yang
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Affiliation Peking University People’s Hospital, Endocrine & Metabolism Department, Beijing, China
- Xueying Gao
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Affiliation Peking University People’s Hospital, Endocrine & Metabolism Department, Beijing, China
- Lingli Zhou
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Affiliation Peking University People’s Hospital, Endocrine & Metabolism Department, Beijing, China
- Xueyao Han
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Affiliation Peking University People’s Hospital, Endocrine & Metabolism Department, Beijing, China
- Linong Ji
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* E-mail: jiln@bjmu.edu.cn
Affiliation Peking University People’s Hospital, Endocrine & Metabolism Department, Beijing, China
Competing Interests
We also received financial support for this study from Merck China Ltd. There are not any patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: LJ. Data curation: WY LZ. Formal analysis: XC XH. Funding acquisition: LJ XC. Investigation: WY XG LZ. Methodology: XC. Project administration: LJ. Resources: WY XG LZ. Software: XH. Supervision: LJ. Validation: XC. Visualization: XC WY. Writing – original draft: XC. Writing – review & editing: XC XH LJ.