About the Authors

Julia Dahlmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Dahlmann, George Awad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Clinic of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Göttingen, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Clinic of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

George Awad

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Dahlmann, George Awad

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Current address: Clinic of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Göttingen, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Clinic of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Carsten Dolny

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Clinic of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Sönke Weinert

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Clinic of Cardiology and Angiology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Karin Richter

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Klaus-Dieter Fischer

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Thomas Munsch

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Volkmar Leßmann

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Marianne Volleth

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Martin Zenker

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Yaoyao Chen

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Claudia Merkl

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technical University Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Angelika Schnieke

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technical University Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Hassina Baraki

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Clinic of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Göttingen, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Clinic of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Ingo Kutschka

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Clinic of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Göttingen, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Clinic of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

George Kensah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

george.kensah@med.uni-goettingen.de

Current address: Clinic of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Göttingen, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Clinic of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.