About the Authors

Xiaoxiang Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoxiang Tian, Chenghui Yan

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Center for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Core Lab for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China

Chenghui Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoxiang Tian, Chenghui Yan

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Center for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Core Lab for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China

Meili Liu

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Center for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Core Lab for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China

Quanyu Zhang

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Center for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Core Lab for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China

Dan Liu

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Center for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Core Lab for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China

Yanxia Liu

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Center for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Core Lab for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China

Shaohua Li

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, United States of America

Yaling Han

yalinghan@gmail.com

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Center for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China, Cardiovascular Core Lab for Translational Medicine of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YH. Formal analysis: QZ DL. Funding acquisition: XT YH CY QZ. Investigation: XT CY ML. Project administration: YH. Resources: DL YL. Supervision: YH. Validation: YH. Writing – original draft: XT YH SL.