About the Authors

Houyuan Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Houyuan Hu, Paul C. J. Armstrong

Affiliations Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Cardiology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Paul C. J. Armstrong

Contributed equally to this work with: Houyuan Hu, Paul C. J. Armstrong

Affiliation Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Elie Khalil

Affiliation Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Yung-Chih Chen

Affiliations Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Andreas Straub

Affiliation Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Min Li

Affiliations Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Cardiology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Juliana Soosairajah

Affiliation Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Christoph E. Hagemeyer

Affiliation Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Nicole Bassler

Affiliation Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Dexing Huang

Affiliation Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ingo Ahrens

Affiliation Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Guy Krippner

Affiliation Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Elizabeth Gardiner

Affiliation Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Karlheinz Peter

karlheinz.peter@bakeridi.edu.au

Affiliations Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH PCJA EK EG KP. Performed the experiments: HH PCJA EK YCC AS ML JS NB DH IA. Analyzed the data: HH PCJA EK CEH EG KP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK EG KP. Wrote the paper: HH PCJA EG KP.