About the Authors

Mengliu Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Mengliu Yang, Lili Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine (Ministry of Education) and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Lili Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Mengliu Yang, Lili Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine (Ministry of Education) and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Chong Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine (Ministry of Education) and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Hua Liu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Guenther Boden

Affiliation The Division of Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism and the Clinical Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gangyi Yang

lingli31@yahoo.com.cn (LL); gangyiyang@yahoo.com.cn (GY)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine (Ministry of Education) and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Ling Li

lingli31@yahoo.com.cn (LL); gangyiyang@yahoo.com.cn (GY)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine (Ministry of Education) and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL GY. Performed the experiments: MY LZ CW. Analyzed the data: LZ. Wrote the paper: LL GY. Revised the manuscript: HL GB.