About the Authors

Benjamin Beska

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Cellular Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Cardiothoracic Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Danny Chan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Cellular Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Cardiothoracic Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Sophie Gu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Cellular Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Cardiothoracic Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Weiliang Qiu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Helen Mossop

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Dermot Neely

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Vijay Kunadian

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

vijay.kunadian@newcastle.ac.uk

Affiliations Institute of Cellular Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Cardiothoracic Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.