About the Authors

Wei Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Jin, Xiuxiu Su

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiuxiu Su

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Jin, Xiuxiu Su

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Min Xu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yan Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jingyi Shi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Lin Lu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Wenquan Niu

niuwenquan@yahoo.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJ WN. Performed the experiments: XS MX JS. Analyzed the data: WJ WN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL JS LL. Wrote the paper: WN.