About the Authors

Weiling Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Weiling Wu, Zhenzhen Hu

Affiliation Children’s Health Center, The Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R. China

Zhenzhen Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Weiling Wu, Zhenzhen Hu

Affiliation Clinical Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, The Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R. China

Feng Wang

Affiliation Children’s Health Center, The Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R. China

Hao Gu

Affiliation The Second Clinical School, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R.China

Xiuqin Jiang

Affiliation Clinical Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, The Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R. China

Jinjin Xu

Affiliation Clinical Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, The Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R. China

Xi Zhan

Affiliation Center for Vascular and inflammatory Diseases, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Datong Zheng

dtzheng@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Children’s Health Center, The Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R. China, Clinical Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, The Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R. China, The Second Clinical School, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R.China

Zhengdong Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R.China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: WW ZH DZ. Data curation: WW ZH. Formal analysis: XJ JX XZ ZZ. Funding acquisition: WW ZH DZ. Investigation: WW ZH FW HG. Methodology: WW ZH DZ. Project administration: ZH DZ. Resources: XZ ZZ. Software: XJ JX HG. Supervision: DZ. Validation: ZH. Visualization: WW ZH DZ. Writing – original draft: WW ZH. Writing – review & editing: ZH DZ.