About the Authors
- Changwei Li
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Contributed equally to this work with: Changwei Li, Xueli Yang
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Xueli Yang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Changwei Li, Xueli Yang
Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center of Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- Jiang He
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- James E. Hixson
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Dongfeng Gu
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center of Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- Dabeeru C. Rao
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Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Lawrence C. Shimmin
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Jianfeng Huang
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center of Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- Charles C. Gu
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Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Jichun Chen
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center of Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- Jianxin Li
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center of Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- Tanika N. Kelly
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* E-mail: tkelly@tulane.edu
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CL XY JH TNK. Performed the experiments: JH JEH DG DCR LCS JH CCG JC JL. Analyzed the data: CL XY TNK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH DG JEH DCR. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CL XY TNK. Reviewed/revised the manuscript: CL XY JH JEH DG DCR LCS JH CCG JC JL TNK.