About the Authors

Baodong Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Baodong Qin, Jiaqi Wang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Jiaqi Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Baodong Qin, Jiaqi Wang

Affiliation Department of Stomatology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yan Liang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Zaixing Yang

yangzaixingdiyi@163.com (ZY); rqzhong@yahoo.com (RZ)

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Renqian Zhong

yangzaixingdiyi@163.com (ZY); rqzhong@yahoo.com (RZ)

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZY RZ. Performed the experiments: BQ JW. Analyzed the data: BQ YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BQ JW. Wrote the paper: BQ JW.