About the Authors

Feng Zhang

fzhxjtu@mail.xjtu.edu.cn (FZ); dengh@umkc.edu (HWD)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Environment and Gene Related Diseases of Ministry Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Xiong Guo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Environment and Gene Related Diseases of Ministry Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Hong-Wen Deng

fzhxjtu@mail.xjtu.edu.cn (FZ); dengh@umkc.edu (HWD)

Affiliations Center of System Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Basic Medical Science, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FZ. Performed the experiments: FZ. Analyzed the data: FZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FZ. Wrote the paper: FZ HWD XG.