About the Authors

Yu Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Sun, Minjie Wang, Guigao Lin

Affiliation National Center for Clinical Laboratories, Beijing Hospital of the Ministry of Health, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Minjie Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Sun, Minjie Wang, Guigao Lin

Affiliation Clinical Laboratories, Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Guigao Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Sun, Minjie Wang, Guigao Lin

Affiliations National Center for Clinical Laboratories, Beijing Hospital of the Ministry of Health, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Graduate School, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Shipeng Sun

Affiliation Clinical Laboratories, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xuexiang Li

Affiliation Clinical Laboratories, Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Jun Qi

Affiliation Clinical Laboratories, Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Jinming Li

ljm63hn@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation National Center for Clinical Laboratories, Beijing Hospital of the Ministry of Health, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS SPS JML. Performed the experiments: YS MJW. Analyzed the data: YS MJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XXL JQ. Wrote the paper: YS JML. Performed the additional experiments and data analysis in the reviewed manuscript: GGL.