Zhang, Danqing
Gao, Lu
Ye, Heng
Chi, Ruibin
Wang, Lin
Hu, Linhui
Ouyang, Xin
Hou, Yating
Deng, Yujun
Long, Yi
Xiong, Weiping
Chen, Chunbo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5662-497X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (2014B020212023)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81671963)
National Science and Technology Support Program (2015BAI12B07)
Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (2016A020215129)
Article History
Received: 1 May 2018
Accepted: 3 January 2019
First Online: 6 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Ethics committee of the Guangdong General Hospital supervised the study, including the study design, protocol, ethical issue, and data and sample collection. Written informed consent was obtained from each patient or from the appropriate guardian.
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