About the Authors

Erik Larsson

erik.larsson@gu.se (EL); per.lindahl@wlab.gu.se (PL)

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Björn Wahlstrand

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Bo Hedblad

Affiliation Clinical research Center (CRC), Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Thomas Hedner

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Sverre E. Kjeldsen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology/Cardiovascular and Renal Research Center, Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Olle Melander

Contributed equally to this work with: Olle Melander, Per Lindahl

Affiliation Clinical research Center (CRC), Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Per Lindahl

Contributed equally to this work with: Olle Melander, Per Lindahl

erik.larsson@gu.se (EL); per.lindahl@wlab.gu.se (PL)

Affiliation Wallenberg Laboratory, Institute of Medicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL BW BH TH SEK OM PL. Performed the experiments: EL BH OM. Analyzed the data: EL OM PL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL TH SE BH OM PL. Wrote the paper: EL PL.