Sex-dependent aortic valve pathology in patients with rheumatic heart disease

• Feng Xiao,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Departments of Genetics, Pediatrics and Medicine (Cardiology), The Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Rui Zheng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Di Yang,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Kejiang Cao,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Shijiang Zhang,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Bingruo Wu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Departments of Genetics, Pediatrics and Medicine (Cardiology), The Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Yongfeng Shao ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bin_zhou@yahoo.com (BZ); yongfengshao30@hotmail.com (YS)

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Bin Zhou

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bin_zhou@yahoo.com (BZ); yongfengshao30@hotmail.com (YS)

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Departments of Genetics, Pediatrics and Medicine (Cardiology), The Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0832-4002

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