About the Authors

Lei Xiong

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Xiong, Xiancheng Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Institute of Urology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Xiancheng Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Xiong, Xiancheng Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Ning Liu

Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Institute of Urology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Zhen Wang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Institute of Urology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Baolei Miao

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Institute of Urology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Weidong Gan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

gwd@nju.edu.cn, dr.gwd@yeah.net (WG); lidm@nju.edu.cn (DL)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Institute of Urology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Dongmei Li

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

gwd@nju.edu.cn, dr.gwd@yeah.net (WG); lidm@nju.edu.cn (DL)

Affiliations Immunology and Reproductive Biology Laboratory & State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Hongqian Guo

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Urology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Institute of Urology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.