Cardiomyocyte-specific cell-free dna as a heart failure biomarker?

The authors acknowledge the help of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) with infrastructure and coordination. The BAS divers are acknowledged for their support in sampling. We thank Willie Hijman and Guido van der Weg for their help with measurements with PCBs and PBDEs. We express our gratitude toward the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (grant 866.14.104) for financing this project.