Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Eight Novel Loci Associated with Blood Pressure Responses to Interventions in Han Chinese Running title : He et al . ; Novel loci for BP responses

Jiang He, MD, PhD*; Tanika N. Kelly, PhD*; Qi Zhao, MD, PhD*; Hongfan Li, MD, PhD*; Jianfeng Huang, MD; Laiyuan Wang, MD, PhD; Cashell E. Jaquish, PhD; Yun Ju Sung, PhD; Lawrence C. Shimmin, PhD; Fanghong Lu, MD; Jianjun Mu, MD, PhD; Dongsheng Hu, MD; Xu Ji, MD; Chong Shen, MD, PhD; Dongshuang Guo, MD; Jixiang Ma, MD, PhD; Renping Wang, MD; Jinjin Shen, MD; Shengxu Li, MD, PhD; Jing Chen, MD; Hao Mei, MD, PhD; Chung-Shiuan Chen, MS; Shufeng Chen, MD, PhD; Jichun Chen, MD; Jianxin Li, MD; Jie Cao, MD; Xiangfeng Lu, MD; Xigui Wu, MD; Treva K. Rice, PhD; C. Charles Gu, PhD; Karen Schwander, MS; L. Lee Hamm, MD; Depei Liu, MD, PhD; Dabeeru C. Rao, PhD*; James E. Hixson, PhD*; Dongfeng Gu, MD, PhD*