Dehua Yang: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: SoftwareRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing –
review & editing
Linghong Chen: Role: Data curationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
SoftwareRole: Writing – original draft
Zhimin Chen:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5160-7502
Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Senthilnathan Palaniyandi: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
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)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
29
January
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 1
Electronic Location Identifier: e0191951
Affiliations
[1
]
Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
[2
]
The First People’s Hospital of Wenling, Wenling, Zhejiang, P.R. China
University of Kentucky, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Article
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PONE-D-17-08207
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191951
PMC ID: 5788379
PubMed ID: 29377957
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the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: Wenling science and technology project fund
Award ID: 2012WLCA0057
Award Recipient
:
Linghong Chen
This work was supported by grant 2012WLCA0057 from the Wenling Science and Technology
Project Fund (
http://new.wl.gov.cn/col/col1402190/index.html). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision
to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Linghong Chen received the funding.
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