About the Authors

Di Wang

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China

Guangrong Zhu

Affiliations Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China, Department of Hematology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, The People's Republic of China

Na Wang

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China

Xiaoxi Zhou

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China

Yunfan Yang

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China

Shiqiu Zhou

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China

Jie Xiong

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China

Jing He

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China

Lijun Jiang

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China

Chunrui Li

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China

Danmei Xu

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China

Liang Huang

lhuang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China

Jianfeng Zhou

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, The People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW NW JZ LH. Performed the experiments: NW JX LH. Analyzed the data: DW YY JH LJ LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW CL DX. Wrote the paper: DW LH. Performed experiments for paper revision: GZ XZ SZ.