摘要

<正>In 2001, Dr. Zhi-Cheng Jing encountered a pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patient from a large pedigree. Dr. Jing collected the clinical information and blood samples from this pedigree and was the first to report the pedigree of familial PAH in China [1]. In2004, this pedigree was confirmed to carry a mutation in BMPR2(Arg491Trp), which was the first evidence of pathogenicity of BMPR2 mutation in the Chinese population [2].