About the Authors

Lin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Zhang, Kumar Narayanan

Affiliation Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Public Health, Shanghai, China

Kumar Narayanan

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Zhang, Kumar Narayanan

Affiliation The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Harpriya Chugh

Affiliation The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Takahiro Shiota

Affiliation The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zhi-Jie Zheng

Affiliation Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Public Health, Shanghai, China

Sumeet S Chugh

sumeet.chugh@cshs.org

Affiliation The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ KN SSC. Performed the experiments: LZ KN. Analyzed the data: LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC TS. Wrote the paper: LZ KN SSC. Critical revision/improvements: KN ZJZ SSC.