We had extracted Genomic DNA from 200 μL of blood collected from each participant using a TIANamp Blood DNA Kit (Tiangen, Beijing city, China) and we followed the specific procedures in the literature (35 (link)–37 (link)). The extracted DNA is placed in a −80°C refrigerator until use. The allele-specific probes were purchased from Applied Biosystems. TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction of the samples is performed in 384-well plate with an ABI Q6 instrument (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, United States) to genotype rs7404339 polymorphism in CDH5 (38 (link), 39 (link)). For quality control, each 384-well plate contained eight samples without DNA but with the same amount of distilled water. Moreover, to ensure the quality and accuracy of the genotyping results, we randomly selected 10% of the samples for a repeat analysis, and the results were 100% concordant.
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