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This work was partially funded by a grant (HL 53233) from the National Institutes of Health (Timothy Scott-Burden, PhD) and the Roderick MacDonald Research Fellowship (Doreen Rosenstrauch). I sincerely appreciate the helpful discussions and exceptional mentorship of PD Dr. med. Horst Laube, Prof. Dr. med. Roland Hetzer at the German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany and Kamuran Kadipasaoglu, PhD, OH Frazier, MD, at the Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, USA.