About the Authors

An Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: An Qin, Tak S. Cheng

Affiliations Shanghai Key Laboratory of Orthopaedic Implant, Department of Orthopaedics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai, The People's Republic of China, Centre for Orthopaedic Research, School of Surgery, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Tak S. Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: An Qin, Tak S. Cheng

Affiliation Centre for Orthopaedic Research, School of Surgery, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Zhen Lin

Affiliations Centre for Orthopaedic Research, School of Surgery, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Division of Orthopaedic, Department of Surgery, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong, The People's Republic of China

Nathan J. Pavlos

Affiliation Centre for Orthopaedic Research, School of Surgery, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Qing Jiang

Affiliations Australian-China Joint Centre for Bone and Joint Research, Model Animal Research Centre of Nanjing University, Nanjing, The People's Republic of China, The Center of Diagnosis and Treatment for Joint Disease, Drum Tower Hospital Affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, The People's Republic of China

Jiake Xu

Affiliation School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Ke R. Dai

minghao.zheng@uwa.edu.au (MHZ); krdai@163.com (KD)

Affiliations Shanghai Key Laboratory of Orthopaedic Implant, Department of Orthopaedics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai, The People's Republic of China, Orthopaedic Cellular and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Institute of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, The People's Republic of China

Ming H. Zheng

minghao.zheng@uwa.edu.au (MHZ); krdai@163.com (KD)

Affiliations Centre for Orthopaedic Research, School of Surgery, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Australian-China Joint Centre for Bone and Joint Research, Model Animal Research Centre of Nanjing University, Nanjing, The People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AQ TC. Performed the experiments: AQ TC ZL. Analyzed the data: AQ TC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NP QJ JX KD MZ. Wrote the paper: AQ TC NP JX KD MZ. Equal Contributors: AQ TC.