About the Authors

Weike Mao

Contributed equally to this work with: Weike Mao, Tao You

Current address: Department of Anesthesiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Tao You

Contributed equally to this work with: Weike Mao, Tao You

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Division of Cardiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Bo Ye

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Xiang Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Henry H. Dong

Affiliation Division of Immunogenetics, Rangoes Research Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joseph A. Hill

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Faqian Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Haodong Xu

Haodong_Xu@URMC.Rochestser.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HX FL WM TY. Performed the experiments: WM TY BY XL HX. Analyzed the data: WM TY HX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HHD JAH. Wrote the paper: WM TY FL HX.