About the Authors

Dan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Liu, Hong Guo

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Hong Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Liu, Hong Guo

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Yafei Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, College of Preventive Medicine, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xueqing Xu

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Kang Yang

kangyang@mail.tmmu.edu.cn (KY); baiyungene@gmail.com (YB)

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Yun Bai

kangyang@mail.tmmu.edu.cn (KY); baiyungene@gmail.com (YB)

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YB KY DL HG. Performed the experiments: DL HG. Analyzed the data: DL HG XX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL YL XX. Wrote the paper: DL HG. Software used in analysis: DL HG YL XX. Revising the article critically for important intellectual content: DL HG KY YB.