About the Authors

Ali Aydin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ali Aydin, Baran A. Adsay

Affiliation Department of Cardiology/Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Baran A. Adsay

Contributed equally to this work with: Ali Aydin, Baran A. Adsay

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Sara Sheikhzadeh

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Britta Keyser

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Meike Rybczynski

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Claudia Sondermann

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Christian Detter

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Daniel Steven

Affiliation Department of Cardiology/Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Peter N. Robinson

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics and Medical Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jürgen Berger

Affiliation Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jörg Schmidtke

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stefan Blankenberg

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Stephan Willems

Affiliation Department of Cardiology/Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Yskert von Kodolitsch

kodolitsch@uke.de

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Boris A. Hoffmann

Affiliation Department of Cardiology/Electrophysiology, University Heart Center, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA BAA BAH SW YvK. Performed the experiments: AA BAA SS MR DS BAH BK JS CS. Analyzed the data: JB YvK. Wrote the paper: YvK. Discussion of data and help with writing the manuscript: CD PNR SB.