About the Authors

Jin-qi Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-qi Song, Fu Dong

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Fu Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-qi Song, Fu Dong

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Beihai People's Hospital of Guangxi Province, Bei Hai, Guangxi Province, China

Xue Li

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Chang-peng Xu

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Zhuang Cui

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Nan Jiang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Jun-jie Jia

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Bin Yu

orthop@sohu.com

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Key Laboratory of Bone and Cartilage Regenerative Medicine of Guangdong Province, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS FD BY. Performed the experiments: JS FD XL. Analyzed the data: CX ZC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJ. Wrote the paper: JS FD CX. Revised the manuscript: JJ.