About the Authors

Hai-Yan Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Hai-Yan Jin, Bei Song, Gavin Y. Oudit

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Vascular Biology, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China

Bei Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Hai-Yan Jin, Bei Song, Gavin Y. Oudit

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Vascular Biology, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China

Gavin Y. Oudit

Contributed equally to this work with: Hai-Yan Jin, Bei Song, Gavin Y. Oudit

Affiliation Divsion of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Sandra T. Davidge

Affiliations Divsion of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Hui-Min Yu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Guangdong General Hospital and Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangzhou, China

Yan-Yan Jiang

Affiliations Divsion of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Ping-Jin Gao

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Vascular Biology, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China

Ding-Liang Zhu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Vascular Biology, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China

Guang Ning

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zamaneh Kassiri

Affiliation Divsion of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Josef M. Penninger

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Jiu-Chang Zhong

jiuchangzhong@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Vascular Biology, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYJ GYO STD JCZ. Performed the experiments: HYJ BS HMY YYJ JCZ. Analyzed the data: HYJ BS STD PJG DLZ GN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PJG ZK JMP. Wrote the paper: HYJ BS JCZ. Reviewed and provided critical suggestion on this manuscript: HMY DLZ GN.