About the Authors

Xiaofang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaofang Zhang, Lei Ye

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory for Endocrine Tumors, Shanghai Clinical Center for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai E-institute for Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Lei Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaofang Zhang, Lei Ye

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory for Endocrine Tumors, Shanghai Clinical Center for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai E-institute for Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jiong Hu

Affiliation Department of Hematology, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Wei Tang

Affiliation Department of Hematology, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Ruixin Liu

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory for Endocrine Tumors, Shanghai Clinical Center for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai E-institute for Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Minglan Yang

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory for Endocrine Tumors, Shanghai Clinical Center for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai E-institute for Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jie Hong

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory for Endocrine Tumors, Shanghai Clinical Center for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai E-institute for Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Weiqing Wang

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory for Endocrine Tumors, Shanghai Clinical Center for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai E-institute for Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Guang Ning

Affiliations Shanghai Key Laboratory for Endocrine Tumors, Shanghai Clinical Center for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai E-institute for Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Laboratory for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Institute of Health Science, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, School of Medicine, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Weiqiong Gu

weiqionggu@hotmail.com

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory for Endocrine Tumors, Shanghai Clinical Center for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai E-institute for Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ WG GN. Performed the experiments: XZ WG GN. Analyzed the data: XZ WG GN LY JH WT RL MY JH WW. Wrote the paper: XZ WG GN LY.