About the Authors

Qing-ping Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing-ping Wang, Xiao-zhi Cao

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Fifth People's Hospital of Wuxi, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, PR China, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Shaoxing Hospital of China Medical University and Central Hospital of Shaoxing County, Shaoxing County, Zhejiang, PR China

Xiao-zhi Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing-ping Wang, Xiao-zhi Cao

Affiliation Department of Caroliology, Fuzhou General Hospital, Nanjing Command, PLA, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China

Xue-dong Wang

wxd729@126.com

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Fifth People's Hospital of Wuxi, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, PR China

Juan Gu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Fifth People's Hospital of Wuxi, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, PR China

Li-min Wen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Shaoxing Hospital of China Medical University and Central Hospital of Shaoxing County, Shaoxing County, Zhejiang, PR China

Li-ming Mao

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Shaoxing Hospital of China Medical University and Central Hospital of Shaoxing County, Shaoxing County, Zhejiang, PR China

Ping-nan Shan

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Shaoxing Hospital of China Medical University and Central Hospital of Shaoxing County, Shaoxing County, Zhejiang, PR China

Ai-guo Tang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second XiangYa Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Final approval of the version to be published: XW QW XC JG LW LM PS AT. Conceived and designed the experiments: XW QW. Performed the experiments: XC JG LM. Analyzed the data: QW XC LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW LM PS. Wrote the paper: XW QW AT.