About the Authors

Wenwen Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenwen Zhang, Li Shen

Affiliations Center for Translational Medicine, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, PR China

Li Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenwen Zhang, Li Shen

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Shanghai Children's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, PR China

Zhantao Deng

Affiliations Center for Translational Medicine, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, PR China

Yibing Ding

Affiliations Center for Translational Medicine, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, PR China

Xuming Mo

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Children's Hospital, Nanjing, PR China

Zhengfeng Xu

Affiliation Center of Prenatal Diagnosis, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Nanjing Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

Qian Gao

qian_gao@nju.edu.cn (QG); yilong@nju.edu.cn (LY)

Affiliations Center for Translational Medicine, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, PR China

Long Yi

qian_gao@nju.edu.cn (QG); yilong@nju.edu.cn (LY)

Affiliations Center for Translational Medicine, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LY QG. Performed the experiments: WWZ ZTD YBD. Analyzed the data: WWZ LS YL. Wrote the paper: WWZ QG LY. Clinical diagnosis and blood collection: LS XMM ZFX.