About the Authors

Xuan Xia

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Jinhua Yan

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yunfeng Shen

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Kuanxiao Tang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Jun Yin

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Eunice, Louisiana, United States of America

Yanhua Zhang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Dongjie Yang

Affiliation Department of gastrointestinal-pancreatic surgery, The First-Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Hua Liang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Jianping Ye

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Eunice, Louisiana, United States of America

Jianping Weng

wjianp@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW J. Ye. Performed the experiments: XX YZ KT YS DY J. Ye. Analyzed the data: XX J. Yan. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW LH. Wrote the paper: XX J. Ye J. Yan.