About the Authors

Alexandra V. Finsen

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra V. Finsen, Ida G. Lunde

a.v.finsen@medisin.uio.no

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Research Institute for Internal Medicine and Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Ida G. Lunde

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra V. Finsen, Ida G. Lunde

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Ivar Sjaastad

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

Even K. Østli

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

Marianne Lyngra

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Hilde O. Jarstadmarken

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Almira Hasic

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Ståle Nygård

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Bioinformatics Core Facility, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Sarah A. Wilcox-Adelman

Affiliation Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul F. Goetinck

Affiliation Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Torstein Lyberg

Affiliation Center for Clinical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

Biljana Skrbic

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

Geir Florholmen

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Theis Tønnessen

Affiliations Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

William E. Louch

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Srdjan Djurovic

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

Cathrine R. Carlson

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Geir Christensen

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AVF IGL CRC GC. Performed the experiments: AVF IGL CRC IS EKØ ML HOJ AH SD SN TL WEL BS GF TT. Analyzed the data: AVF IGL CRC IS EKØ ML HOJ AH SD SN TL WEL BS GF TT SAW-A PFG GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SAW-A PFG. Wrote the paper: AVF IGL CRC GC.