About the Authors

Yilu Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yilu Wang, Zhimin Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Zhimin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yilu Wang, Zhimin Wang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Qi Yang

Affiliation Radiology Department, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yubao Zou

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Hongju Zhang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Chaowu Yan

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Xinxing Feng

Affiliation Endocrinology and Cardiovascular Center, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Yi Chen

Affiliation Surgical ICU, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Yin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Jizheng Wang

Affiliation Sino-German Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Xianliang Zhou

Affiliation Hypertension Center, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Ferhaan Ahmad

Affiliation Cardiovascular Genetics Center and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rutai Hui

huirutai@gmail.com (RH); lsongqd@yahoo.com (LS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, Sino-German Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, Hypertension Center, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Lei Song

huirutai@gmail.com (RH); lsongqd@yahoo.com (LS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, Hypertension Center, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW ZW JW RH LS. Performed the experiments: YW ZW QY Y.Zou HZ CY XF YC Y.Zhang JW XZ LS. Analyzed the data: YW JW FA RH LS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW ZW QY Y.Zou HZ CY JW. Wrote the paper: YW JW FA RH LS.