About the Authors

Han-Kui Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Han-Kui Lu, Zeng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Zeng Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Han-Kui Lu, Zeng Zhang

Affiliations Metabolic Bone Disease and Genetic Research Unit, Department of Osteoporosis and Bone Diseases, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Yao-Hua Ke

Affiliation Metabolic Bone Disease and Genetic Research Unit, Department of Osteoporosis and Bone Diseases, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Jin-Wei He

Affiliation Metabolic Bone Disease and Genetic Research Unit, Department of Osteoporosis and Bone Diseases, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Wen-Zhen Fu

Affiliation Metabolic Bone Disease and Genetic Research Unit, Department of Osteoporosis and Bone Diseases, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Chang-Qing Zhang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Zhen-Lin Zhang

zzl2002@medmail.com.cn

Affiliation Metabolic Bone Disease and Genetic Research Unit, Department of Osteoporosis and Bone Diseases, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZLZ CQZ. Performed the experiments: YHK JWH WZF. Analyzed the data: ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HKL. Wrote the paper: ZZ.