About the Authors

Xue Zhou

Affiliations Department of Children's and Adolescent Health, Public Health College of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Yang Xu

Current address: Center for Behavioural Science, School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Affiliation Department of Children's and Adolescent Health, Public Health College of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China

Jia Wang

Affiliation Department of Children's and Adolescent Health, Public Health College of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China

Hongbo Zhou

Affiliations The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Basic Medical Science College of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China

Xian Liu

Affiliation Department of Children's and Adolescent Health, Public Health College of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China

Qasim Ayub

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Xuelai Wang

Affiliation Department of Children's and Adolescent Health, Public Health College of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China

Chris Tyler-Smith

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Lijie Wu

wulijie_123@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Children's and Adolescent Health, Public Health College of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China

Yali Xue

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QA CTS LW Y. Xue. Performed the experiments: XZ Y. Xu JW HZ XW LW. Analyzed the data: XZ QA LW Y. Xue. Wrote the paper: XZ CTS Y. Xue.