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Article History

Received: 29 May 2019

Accepted: 31 January 2020

First Online: 7 February 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Hu Huang’s research group is approved for vertebrae animal research under Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of University of Missouri School of Medicine (protocol number: 9520), however, as the current study was conducted on publicly available RNA-seq datasets (SRP112616), no additional ethical approval was required.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.