About the Authors

Gábor Földes

Contributed equally to this work with: Gábor Földes, Alexander Liu

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Alexander Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Gábor Földes, Alexander Liu

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Rekha Badiger

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Mark Paul-Clark

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Laura Moreno

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Zsuzsanna Lendvai

Affiliation Heart Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Jamie S. Wright

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Nadire N. Ali

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Sian E. Harding

sian.harding@imperial.ac.uk

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Jane A. Mitchell

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Geron: The authors have a non-financial collaborative agreement, but this does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GF AL NNA SEH JAM. Performed the experiments: GF AL RB MPC LM ZL JW NNA. Analyzed the data: GF AL RB MPC LM ZL NNA SEH JAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAM. Wrote the paper: GF NNA SEH JAM.