About the Authors

Kuo Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuo Liu, Jielin Liu

Affiliation Department of Hypertension Research, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University and Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Jielin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuo Liu, Jielin Liu

Affiliation Department of Hypertension Research, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University and Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yan Huang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Institute of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Ya Liu

Affiliation Department of Hypertension Research, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University and Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yuqing Lou

Affiliation Department of Hypertension Research, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University and Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Zuoguang Wang

Affiliation Department of Hypertension Research, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University and Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Hong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Shan Yan

Affiliation Department of Hypertension Research, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University and Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Zhizhong Li

wenshaojun@yahoo.com.cn (SW); dr_lizhizhong@yahoo.com.cn (ZL)

Affiliation Emergency Center of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Shaojun Wen

wenshaojun@yahoo.com.cn (SW); dr_lizhizhong@yahoo.com.cn (ZL)

Affiliation Department of Hypertension Research, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University and Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KL JL ZL SW. Performed the experiments: KL JL YH. Analyzed the data: KL JL YH YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH YL YL ZW HZ SY. Wrote the paper: KL JL ZL SW.