About the Authors

Themistocles L. Assimes

Contributed equally to this work with: Themistocles L. Assimes, I. -T. Lee

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

I. -T. Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Themistocles L. Assimes, I. -T. Lee

Affiliation Division of Endocrine and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Jyh-Ming Juang

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center and Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Xiuqing Guo

Affiliation Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, and Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tzung-Dau Wang

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center and Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Eric T. Kim

Affiliation Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, and Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wen-Jane Lee

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Devin Absher

Affiliation HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama

Yen-Feng Chiu

Affiliation Institute of Population Health Sciences, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Chih-Cheng Hsu

Affiliation Institute of Population Health Sciences, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Lee-Ming Chuang

Affiliation Division of Endocrine and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Thomas Quertermous

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Chao A. Hsiung

Affiliation HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama

Jerome I. Rotter

Affiliation Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, and Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wayne H.-H. Sheu

Affiliation Division of Endocrine and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Yii-Der Ida Chen

Affiliation Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, and Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kent D. Taylor

ktaylor@labiomed.org

Affiliation Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, and Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JR YDC WS CAH TQ KT TA. Performed the experiments: DA KT IL JJ EK WL CAH LC TQ. Analyzed the data: JR YDC KT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IL JJ TW EK WL DA YFC TQ LC CCH JR WS YC XG KT. Wrote the paper: KT JR YDC TA WS XG.