About the Authors

Yin-gang Zhang

zyingang@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Xuezhi Wang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Zhenghe Hospital, Xi'an, China

Zhi Yang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Hong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Miao Liu

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Yushen Qiu

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Xiong Guo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Environment and Genes Related to Diseases of Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ YQ XG HZ ML. Performed the experiments: YZ XW ZY. Analyzed the data: YZ ZY. Wrote the paper: YZ ZY XW.