About the Authors

Sjoukje I. Lok

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Department of Pathology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Nicolaas de Jonge

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Joyce van Kuik

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Ankie J. P. van Geffen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Manon M. H. Huibers

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Petra van der Weide

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Erica Siera

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Bjorn Winkens

Affiliation Department of Methodology and Statistics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Pieter A. Doevendans

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Roel A. de Weger

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Paula A. da Costa Martins

p.dacostamartins@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL NdJ JvK AvG MH PvW ES RW PdM. Performed the experiments: SL JvK AvG PvW ES PdM. Analyzed the data: SL BW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL JvK AvG MH PvW ES RW PdM. Wrote the paper: SL NdJ JvK AvG PvW ES BW PD RW PdM.