About the Authors

Weifang Yu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Jian Liu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Life Sciences, School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China

Michael A. Shi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jianan Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Meixiang Xiang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Shiro Kitamoto

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bing Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Galina K. Sukhova

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

George F. Murphy

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gabriela Orasanu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anders Grubb

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

Guo-Ping Shi

gshi@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GPS. Performed the experiments: WY JL MAS MX SK BW GKS GFM GO GPS. Analyzed the data: WY JL MAS JW MX SK BW GKS GFM GPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG GPS. Wrote the paper: JW GFM AG GPS.