About the Authors

Yi Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Song, Guodong Fang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

Guodong Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Song, Guodong Fang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

Haitao Shen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

Hui Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

Wenbing Yang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

Bing Pan

Affiliation The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Institute of Systems Biomedicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences of Education Ministry, and Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides of Health Ministry, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Guowei Huang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

Guangyu Lin

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China, Translational Medicine Center, Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

Lian Ma

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China, Translational Medicine Center, Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

Belinda Willard

Affiliation Proteomics Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jiang Gu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

Lemin Zheng

yywangut@gmail.com (YW); zhengl@bjmu.edu.cn (LZ)

Affiliation The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Institute of Systems Biomedicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences of Education Ministry, and Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides of Health Ministry, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Yongyu Wang

yywangut@gmail.com (YW); zhengl@bjmu.edu.cn (LZ)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW YS GF LZ. Performed the experiments: YS GF HS HL WY GH YW. Analyzed the data: YS GF LZ YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BP GL LM JG. Wrote the paper: YW LZ BW.