About the Authors

Zeinab Neshati

Affiliation Heart Center Leiden, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jia Liu

Affiliations Heart Center Leiden, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China

Guangqian Zhou

Affiliation Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China

Martin J. Schalij

Affiliation Heart Center Leiden, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Antoine A. F. de Vries

a.a.f.de_vries@lumc.nl

Affiliation Heart Center Leiden, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZN AAFdV. Performed the experiments: ZN JL. Analyzed the data: ZN JL AAFdV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZN JL MJS AAFdV. Wrote the paper: ZN MJS AAFdV JL GZ.