About the Authors

Yongqin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yongqin Wang, Lefeng Wang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College of Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, China, Laboratory of Human Genetics, Beijing Hypertension League Institute, Beijing, China, School of Basic Courses, Baotou Medical College, Baotou, Neimenggu, China

Lefeng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yongqin Wang, Lefeng Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xin Liu

Affiliations Laboratory of Human Genetics, Beijing Hypertension League Institute, Beijing, China, Department of Cardiology, Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yongzhi Zhang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College of Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, China, Laboratory of Human Genetics, Beijing Hypertension League Institute, Beijing, China

Liping Yu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Fan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Lisheng Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Genetics, Beijing Hypertension League Institute, Beijing, China

Jun Cai

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Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xinchun Yang

xingyuw@yahoo.com (XW); caijun7879@hotmail.com (JC); yxc6229@sina.com (XY)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xingyu Wang

xingyuw@yahoo.com (XW); caijun7879@hotmail.com (JC); yxc6229@sina.com (XY)

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College of Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, China, Laboratory of Human Genetics, Beijing Hypertension League Institute, Beijing, China, Department of Cardiology, Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW LL JC XY. Performed the experiments: XW YW XL LY LW FZ. Analyzed the data: YW YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW LL. Wrote the paper: YW LW. Reviewed/edited manuscript: YW XL XW.