About the Authors

Wenquan Niu

niuwenquan@yahoo.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Vascular Biology and Department of Hypertension, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Laboratory of Vascular Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China

Yue Qi

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Capital Medical University Affiliated Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Anzhenli, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YQ WN. Performed the experiments: YQ WN. Analyzed the data: WN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WN. Wrote the manuscript: WN. Reference collection and data management: WN YQ. Statistical analyses and paper writing: WN. Study design: WN YQ.