About the Authors

Zhou Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhou Zhou, Fuli Yu, Ashley Buchanan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Fuwai Hospital, CAMS & PUMC, Beijing, China

Fuli Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhou Zhou, Fuli Yu, Ashley Buchanan

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Neurology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China

Ashley Buchanan

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhou Zhou, Fuli Yu, Ashley Buchanan

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Yuanyuan Fu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Fuwai Hospital, CAMS & PUMC, Beijing, China

Marco Campos

Affiliation Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kenneth K. Wu

Affiliation National Health Research Institutes, Taipei, Taiwan

Lloyd E. Chambless

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Aaron R. Folsom

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Eric Boerwinkle

Affiliation Human Genetic Center, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jing-fei Dong

jfdong@psbc.org

Affiliations Puget Sound Blood Research Institute, Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

There is no competing interests associated with this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KKW ARF EB JFD. Performed the experiments: ZZ FY AB YF MC LEC. Analyzed the data: AB LEC JFD. Wrote the paper: ZZ ARF LEC JFD.