About the Authors

Xiaoli Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoli Chen, Yiping Shen

Affiliations Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yiping Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoli Chen, Yiping Shen

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yonghui Gao

Affiliations Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China, Institute of Acu-moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Huizhi Zhao

Affiliation Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Xiaoming Sheng

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jizhen Zou

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Va Lip

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hua Xie

Affiliation Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Jin Guo

Affiliation Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Hong Shao

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yihua Bao

Affiliation Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Jianliang Shen

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Navy General Hospital of PLA, Beijing, China

Bo Niu

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

James F. Gusella

Affiliations Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bai-Lin Wu

Bai-Lin.Wu@childrens.harvard.edu (BLW); zhangtingcv@yahoo.com.cn (TZ)

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Children's Hospital and Institutes of Biomedical Science, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Ting Zhang

Bai-Lin.Wu@childrens.harvard.edu (BLW); zhangtingcv@yahoo.com.cn (TZ)

Affiliation Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Manuscript revision: JFG BLW. Intelligent advice: JFG BN. Conceived and designed the experiments: XLC TZ BLW. Performed the experiments: XLC YPS VL. Analyzed the data: XLC HZZ HX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YHG JZZ XMS HS JG YHB JLS. Wrote the paper: XLC YPS.