About the Authors
- Kirsi Kujala
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kirsi Kujala, Jere Paavola
Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, BioMediTech, Tampere, Finland
- Jere Paavola
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kirsi Kujala, Jere Paavola
Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, BioMediTech, Tampere, Finland, Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland
- Anna Lahti
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Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, BioMediTech, Tampere, Finland
- Kim Larsson
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Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, BioMediTech, Tampere, Finland
- Mari Pekkanen-Mattila
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Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, BioMediTech, Tampere, Finland
- Matti Viitasalo
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Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Annukka M. Lahtinen
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Affiliation Research Program’s Unit Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Lauri Toivonen
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Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Kimmo Kontula
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Heikki Swan
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Mika Laine
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Affiliations Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Cardiology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Olli Silvennoinen
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Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, BioMediTech, Tampere, Finland, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Katriina Aalto-Setälä
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* E-mail: katriina.aalto-setala@uta.fi
Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, BioMediTech, Tampere, Finland, Heart Center, Tampere, Finland
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: K. Kujala JP KL K. Kontula OS KAS. Performed the experiments: K. Kujala JP AL KL MV AML. Analyzed the data: K. Kujala JP KL MPM MV LT ML OS KAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OS KAS. Wrote the paper: K. Kujala JP KL KAS. Clinical expertise: LT K. Kontula HS ML. Genetic expertise: K. Kontula HS. Provided genotyped patients: K. Kontula.