About the Authors
- Yan Guo
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
- Hui Liu
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Affiliation Department of Articular Surgery, Xi'an Red Cross Hospital, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
- Tie-Lin Yang
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* E-mail: yangtielin@xjtu.edu.cn (T-LY) (TY); hdeng2@tulane.edu (H-WD) (HD)
Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
- Siyang M. Li
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Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
- Siyuan K. Li
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Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
- Qing Tian
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Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Yong-Jun Liu
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Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Hong-Wen Deng
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* E-mail: yangtielin@xjtu.edu.cn (T-LY) (TY); hdeng2@tulane.edu (H-WD) (HD)
Affiliations School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Center of Systematic Biomedical Research, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YG. Performed the experiments: T-LY HL. Analyzed the data: T-LY QT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-JL H-WD SML SKL. Wrote the paper: YG.