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"CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT Any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest were absent of this research."

"This study was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFA1104600, 2022YFA1104604, 2017YFC1103303), National Nature Science Foundation of China (92268206, 32000969, and 82002056), the Military Medical Research Projects (2022‐JCJQ‐ZD‐096‐00, 2023‐JCJQ‐ZD‐117‐12), Key Support Program for Growth Factor Research (SZYZ‐TR‐03), the Science Fund for National Defense Distinguished Young Scholars (2022‐JCJQ‐ZQ‐016), the Special Funding Grant of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2022T150789) and Youth Independent Innovation Science Fund Project of PLA General Hospital (22QNFC018). We thank Prof. Youbai Chen of PLA General Hospital for the help with clinical sample collection."