About the Authors

Wenquan Niu

niuwenquan@yahoo.cn (WN); dr_qiyue@yahoo.cn (YQ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics at 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 Key Laboratory of Vascular Biology, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yue Qi

niuwenquan@yahoo.cn (WN); dr_qiyue@yahoo.cn (YQ)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Beijing An Zhen Hospital, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WN. Performed the experiments: WN YQ. Analyzed the data: WN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WN YQ. Wrote the paper: WN.