About the Authors

Svati H. Shah

svati.shah@duke.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Neil J. Freedman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Lisheng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

David R. Crosslin

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

David H. Stone

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Carol Haynes

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jessica Johnson

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Sarah Nelson

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Liyong Wang

Affiliation Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Jessica J. Connelly

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael Muehlbauer

Affiliation Sarah W. Stedman Center for Nutrition and Metabolism at Duke, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

David C. Crossman

Affiliation University of Sheffield School of Medicine, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Christopher J. H. Jones

Affiliation The Wales Heart Research Institute, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Jeffery Vance

Affiliation Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Michael H. Sketch Jr

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher B. Granger

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher B. Newgard

Affiliation Sarah W. Stedman Center for Nutrition and Metabolism at Duke, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Simon G. Gregory

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont

Affiliation Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

William E. Kraus

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Elizabeth R. Hauser

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHS NJF LZ DHS LW JJC GSG DCC CJHJ JV CBG SGG PJGC WEK ERH. Performed the experiments: SHS NJF LZ DRC DHS CH JJ SN LW MM CBN. Analyzed the data: SHS NJF LZ DRC CH JJ SN LW JJC MM SGG ERH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SHS NJF MM DCC MHSJ. Wrote the paper: SHS NJF DRC DHS CH SN LW JJC GSG CBG CBN PJGC WEK ERH.