About the Authors

Bin Liu

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Yun Xu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Courtney Voss

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Fang-hua Qiu

Affiliation Lab of Proteomics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Ming-zhe Zhao

Affiliation Lab of Proteomics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Yong-dong Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Jing Nie

zilianwang@gmail.com (ZLW); niejing@fimmu.com (JN)

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Zi-lian Wang

zilianwang@gmail.com (ZLW); niejing@fimmu.com (JN)

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BL JN ZLW. Performed the experiments: BL YX FHQ MZZ YDL. Analyzed the data: BL YX. Wrote the paper: BL CV. Supervised the work and critically revised the manuscript: JN ZLW.