About the Authors

Yan Guo

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

Affiliation Department of Articular Surgery, Xi'an Red Cross Hospital, Xi'an, People's Republic of China

Tie-Lin Yang

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

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Siyuan K. Li

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Qing Tian

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Yong-Jun Liu

Affiliation School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Hong-Wen Deng

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.