About the Authors

Jing Chen

jchen@tulane.edu

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

Emile R. Mohler

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alhakam Hudaihed

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

Robin Arora

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

Grace Browne

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

Katherine T. Mills

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

Myra A. Kleinpeter

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

Eric E. Simon

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

Nader Rifai

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael J. Klag

Affiliation The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jiang He

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Tulane Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical 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 LLH MJK JH. Performed the experiments: JC LLH ERM AH RA GB MAK EES NR JH. Analyzed the data: JC CC YL KTM JH. Wrote the paper: JC JH.