About the Authors

Qian Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Zhang, Shufeng Zhang

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Department of Cell Transplantation, the General Hospital of Chinese People’s Armed Police Forces, Beijing, China

Shufeng Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Zhang, Shufeng Zhang

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Department of Neurology, the General Hospital of Chinese People’s Armed Police Forces, Beijing, China

Chunxue Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xiang Gao

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yong Zhou

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Heng Zhou

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Anxin Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Jianwei Wu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Liheng Bian

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Shouling Wu

zxq@vip.163.com (XQZ); drwusl@163.com (SLW)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Kailuan Hospital, Tangshan, China

Xingquan Zhao

zxq@vip.163.com (XQZ); drwusl@163.com (SLW)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: CXW XG HZ. Obtained funding, study administration and supervision: XQZ SLW. Conceived and designed the experiments: XQZ SLW QZ SFZ. Performed the experiments: QZ SFZ YZ HZ AXW JWW LHB. Analyzed the data: QZ SFZ XG YZ AXW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ SFZ YZ HZ AXW JWW LHB. Wrote the paper: QZ SFZ.