About the Authors

Yongsheng Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaoyu Lyu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Dan Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation National Cancer Center/ Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Lin Wang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yujun Wang

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Critical care medicine, the Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Wenbin Zou

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, TongJi Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yingxin Wei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision

wuxiaowei119@126.com (XW); aaronwei1983@126.com (YW)

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Xiaowei Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

wuxiaowei119@126.com (XW); aaronwei1983@126.com (YW)

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, TongJi Hospital, TongJi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.