About the Authors

Li Xie

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Jin-Lan Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Wei-Zhi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Shou-Zheng Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Tian-Li Zhao

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Can Huang

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Jian Wang

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China, The Clinical Center for Gene Diagnosis and Therapy of the State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Jin-Fu Yang

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China, The Clinical Center for Gene Diagnosis and Therapy of the State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Yi-Feng Yang

tanzhiping@gmail.com (ZPT); yyf627@163.com (YFY)

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China, The Clinical Center for Gene Diagnosis and Therapy of the State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Zhi-Ping Tan

tanzhiping@gmail.com (ZPT); yyf627@163.com (YFY)

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China, The Clinical Center for Gene Diagnosis and Therapy of the State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZPT LX YFY. Performed the experiments: LX JW JLC TLZ. Analyzed the data: ZPT LX CH SZW JFY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW JFY WZZ. Wrote the paper: ZPT LX YFY.