About the Authors

Miao Hou

Affiliation Department of Children Health Care, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Nanjing, China

Yanhua Liu

Affiliation Department of Children Health Care, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Nanjing, China

Lijun Zhu

Affiliation Department of Children Health Care, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Nanjing, China

Bin Sun

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Nanjing, China

Mei Guo

Affiliation Institute of Pediatric Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jonas Burén

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Xiaonan Li

xnli@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Children Health Care, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Nanjing, China, Institute of Pediatric Research, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH XL. Performed the experiments: MH YL MG. Analyzed the data: MH XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH LZ BS JB. Wrote the paper: MH JB XL.