About the Authors

Xiaobo Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaobo Li, Yuqiong Li, Bei Song

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

Yuqiong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaobo Li, Yuqiong Li, Bei Song

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

Bei Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaobo Li, Yuqiong Li, Bei Song

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

Shujie Guo

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

Shaoli Chu

Affiliations Department of Hypertension, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China

Nan Jia

niuwenquan@yahoo.cn (WN); jiananchina@yahoo.com.cn (NJ)

Affiliations Department of Hypertension, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China

Wenquan Niu

niuwenquan@yahoo.cn (WN); jiananchina@yahoo.com.cn (NJ)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WN NJ. Performed the experiments: XL YL. Analyzed the data: XL WN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS SG SC. Wrote the paper: WN.