About the Authors

Katherine T. Mills

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

L. Lee Hamm

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Tulane University Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

A. Brent Alper

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Tulane University Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Chad Miller

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Alhakam Hudaihed

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Saravanan Balamuthusamy

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Chung-Shiuan Chen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Yanxi Liu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Joseph Tarsia

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Nader Rifai

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children' Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Myra Kleinpeter

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Tulane University Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Jiang He

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

Jing Chen

jchen@tulane.edu

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, Tulane University Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence, Tulane University School of 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: JC JH. Performed the experiments: LLH ABA CM AH SB JT MK JC. Analyzed the data: KM CSC YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NR. Wrote the paper: KM JH JC.