About the Authors

Michael Bauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Bauer, Susan Cheng

mihi@tentacleriot.eu (MB); scheng3@partners.org (SC)

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Bauer, Susan Cheng

mihi@tentacleriot.eu (MB); scheng3@partners.org (SC)

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kazumasa Unno

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Fen-Chiung Lin

Affiliations Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan, Taipei Medical University Postgraduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Ronglih Liao

Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB SC RL. Performed the experiments: MB KU. Analyzed the data: MB SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB SC KU FCL RL. Wrote the paper: MB SC.