About the Authors

Bingbing Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Bingbing Wei, Zhuoqun Xu, You Zhou

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Zhuoqun Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bingbing Wei, Zhuoqun Xu, You Zhou

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Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

You Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Bingbing Wei, Zhuoqun Xu, You Zhou

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland

Jun Ruan

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Huan Cheng

Affiliation Department of Urology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Bo Xi

Affiliation Department of Maternal and Child Health Care, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Ming Zhu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Ke Jin

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Deqi Zhou

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Qiang Hu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Qiang Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Zhirong Wang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Zhiqiang Yan

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Feng Xuan

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Xing Huang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Jian Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Hongyi Zhou

Affiliation Department of Urology, Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BW ZX. Performed the experiments: BW ZX JR MZ. Analyzed the data: BW JR MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW ZX YZ JR HC BX MZ KJ DZ QH QW ZW ZY FX XH JZ HZ. Wrote the paper: BW ZX YZ.