About the Authors

Xin Gong

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Gong, Jing Liu

Roles Investigation

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jing Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Gong, Jing Liu

Roles Investigation

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, Yantai, China

Dan Zhang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Dawei Yang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Zhihui Min

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Biomedical Research Center, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Xiaoxing Wen

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Guifang Wang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Huayin Li

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yuanlin Song

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Chunxue Bai

Roles Project administration

Affiliations Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Jing Li

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

zhou.jian@fudan.edu.cn (JZ); liumiao.lijing@163.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jian Zhou

Roles Methodology, Project administration

zhou.jian@fudan.edu.cn (JZ); liumiao.lijing@163.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.