About the Authors

Jun Dai

jun.dai@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Applied Health Science and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health - Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Ruth E. Krasnow

Affiliation Center for Health Sciences, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Lei Liu

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Stephen G. Sawada

Affiliation Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Terry Reed

Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD. Analyzed the data: JD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JD REK LL TR. Wrote the paper: JD. Offered significant review and editing to the manuscript: REK LL SGS TR. Approved final manuscript: JD REK LL SGS TR.