Funding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China 10.13039/501100001809
Award Identifier / Grant number: 81741076
Award Identifier / Grant number: 81801490
Acknowledgments
We thank Weina Jin and Jingshan Chen for the contribution on the study design.
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Research funding: This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation (81801490 & 81741076).
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
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Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
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Ethical approval: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (2020-IRB-186).
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