Xiang, Jianyang http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5481-7196
Alafate, Wahafu
Wu, Wei
Wang, Yichang
Li, Xiaodong
Xie, Wanfu
Bai, Xiaobin
Li, Ruichun
Wang, Maode http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8165-2945
Wang, Jia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4746-035X
Article History
Received: 16 August 2021
Revised: 16 December 2021
Accepted: 6 January 2022
First Online: 14 January 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Consent for publication was obtained from the participants.
: This study was approved by the Scientific Ethics Committee at the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University (approval no. 2016–18). All the patients’ samples used in this study have obtained necessary consent.