About the Authors

Guangde Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guangde Zhang, Hongbo Shi

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, PR China

Hongbo Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Guangde Zhang, Hongbo Shi

Affiliation College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150081, PR China

Lin Wang

Affiliation College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150081, PR China

Meng Zhou

Affiliation College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150081, PR China

Zhenzhen Wang

Affiliation College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150081, PR China

Xiaoxia Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, PR China

Liang Cheng

Affiliation College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150081, PR China

Weimin Li

lixueqi_06@163.com (XQL); liweimin_2009@163.com (WML)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, PR China

Xueqi Li

lixueqi_06@163.com (XQL); liweimin_2009@163.com (WML)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GDZ HBS XQL WML. Performed the experiments: HBS GDZ LW MZ ZZW. Analyzed the data: LW XXL LC. Wrote the paper: GDZ HBS XQL WML MZ.