About the Authors

Bo Xi

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Xi, Hong Cheng

Affiliations Department of Maternal and Child Health Care, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, China, Department of Epidemiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Hong Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Xi, Hong Cheng

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Yue Shen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Giriraj R. Chandak

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Hyderabad, India

Xiaoyuan Zhao

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Dongqing Hou

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Lijun Wu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Xingyu Wang

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Genetics, Beijing Hypertension League Institute, Beijing, China

Jie Mi

jiemi@vip.163.com

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM XW. Performed the experiments: YS LW. Analyzed the data: BX GRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ DH LW. Wrote the paper: BX HC GRC.