About the Authors

Andreas Brodehl

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Brodehl, Darrell D. Belke

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Sciences and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Darrell D. Belke

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Brodehl, Darrell D. Belke

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Sciences and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Lauren Garnett

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Sciences and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Kristina Martens

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Sciences and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Nelly Abdelfatah

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Sciences and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Marcela Rodriguez

Affiliations Department of Cardiac Sciences and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Catherine Diao

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Sciences and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Yong-Xiang Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Sciences and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Paul M. K. Gordon

Affiliation Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute Genomics and Bioinformatics Facility, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Anders Nygren

Affiliations Department of Cardiac Sciences and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Brenda Gerull

gerull_b@ukw.de

Affiliations Department of Cardiac Sciences and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center and Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no cometing interests exists.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AB BG. Formal analysis: AB DDB PMKG. Funding acquisition: BG. Investigation: AB DDB LG KM NA MR CD YXC AN. Methodology: AB DDB LG KM CD YXC AN. Project administration: BG. Software: PMKG. Supervision: BG. Validation: AB BG. Visualization: AB. Writing – original draft: AB. Writing – review & editing: AB BG.