Impact of long-term storage and freeze-thawing on eight circulating microRNAs in plasma samples

• Pamela R. Matias-Garcia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3906-5405

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• Rory Wilson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

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• Veronika Mussack,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Physiology and Immunology, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4539-9313

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• Eva Reischl,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

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• Melanie Waldenberger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany

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• Christian Gieger ,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  ¶KORA-Study Group, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany. Membership of the KORA study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

  Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

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• Gabriele Anton,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Annette Peters ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  ¶KORA-Study Group, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany. Membership of the KORA study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

  Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany

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• Andrea Kuehn-Steven

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: andrea.kuehn@helmholtz-muenchen.de

  Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9945-0375

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