About the Authors

Azra Fatima

Contributed equally to this work with: Azra Fatima, Shao Kaifeng

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Center, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Shao Kaifeng

Contributed equally to this work with: Azra Fatima, Shao Kaifeng

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Center, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Sven Dittmann

Affiliations Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, Erich & Hanna Klessmann-Institute for Cardiovascular Research and Development, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

Guoxing Xu

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Center, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Manoj K. Gupta

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Center, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Matthias Linke

Affiliation Institute for Human Genetics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Ulrich Zechner

Affiliation Institute for Human Genetics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Filomain Nguemo

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Center, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Hendrik Milting

Affiliations Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, Erich & Hanna Klessmann-Institute for Cardiovascular Research and Development, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

Martin Farr

Affiliations Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, Erich & Hanna Klessmann-Institute for Cardiovascular Research and Development, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

Jürgen Hescheler

j.hescheler@uni-koeln.de (JH); tomo.saric@uni-koeln.de (TS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Center, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Tomo Šarić

j.hescheler@uni-koeln.de (JH); tomo.saric@uni-koeln.de (TS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Center, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS JH. Performed the experiments: AF SK GX SD ML UZ HM MF MKG. Analyzed the data: AF SK GX SD ML UZ MF TS JH FN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF HM UZ. Wrote the manuscript: TS AF JH.