About the Authors

Yong-Guang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong-Guang Zhang, Jing-Hui Huang, Xue-Yu Hu

Affiliations Institution of Orthopaedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China, 476 Clinical Division, Fuzhou General Hospital, Fuzhou, China

Jing-Hui Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong-Guang Zhang, Jing-Hui Huang, Xue-Yu Hu

Affiliation Institution of Orthopaedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Xue-Yu Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong-Guang Zhang, Jing-Hui Huang, Xue-Yu Hu

Affiliation Institution of Orthopaedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Qing-Song Sheng

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Wei Zhao

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Basic Medical Science College, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China

Zhuo-Jing Luo

zjluo@fmmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Institution of Orthopaedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Z-JL J-HH Y-GZ X-YH. Performed the experiments: Y-GZ J-HH X-YH Q-SS. Analyzed the data: Y-GZ J-HH WZ. Wrote the paper: Y-GZ J-HH.