About the Authors

Emília Ilona Gaál

emilia.gaal@helsinki.fi

Affiliations Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Perttu Salo

Contributed equally to this work with: Perttu Salo, Kati Kristiansson

Affiliation Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Kati Kristiansson

Contributed equally to this work with: Perttu Salo, Kati Kristiansson

Affiliations Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Karola Rehnström

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Johannes Kettunen

Affiliations Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Antti-Pekka Sarin

Affiliations Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Mika Niemelä

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Antti Jula

Affiliation Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Olli T. Raitakari

Affiliations Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Terho Lehtimäki

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Johan G. Eriksson

Affiliations Diabetes Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Vasa Central Hospital, Vasa, Finland, Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland, Unit of General Practice, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Elisabeth Widen

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Murat Günel

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Mitja Kurki

Affiliation Neurosurgery of NeuroCenter, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland

Mikael von und zu Fraunberg

Affiliation Neurosurgery of NeuroCenter, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland

Juha E. Jääskeläinen

Affiliation Neurosurgery of NeuroCenter, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland

Juha Hernesniemi

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Marjo-Riitta Järvelin

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Department of Children, Young People and Families, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland

Anneli Pouta

Affiliation Department of Children, Young People and Families, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland

The International Consortium for Blood Pressure Genome-Wide Association Studies (ICBP-GWAS)

Membership of the ICBP-GWAS is available in Text S1.

Christopher Newton-Cheh

Affiliations Center for Human Genetic Research, Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Veikko Salomaa

Affiliation Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Aarno Palotie

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom, Program in Medical and Population Genetics and Genetic Analysis Platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki and University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Markus Perola

Affiliations Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, University of Tartu, Estonian Genome Centre, Tartu, Estonia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M Perola, EI Gaál, A Palotie, JE Jääskeläinen, M Niemelä, V Salomaa. Performed the experiments: EI Gaál, P Salo, K Kristiansson, J Kettunen, A-P Sarin. Analyzed the data: EI Gaál, P Salo, K Kristiansson. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M Kurki, M von und zu Fraunberg, M Günel, M Niemelä, J Hernesniemi, OT Raitakari, T Lehtimäki, E Widen, JG Eriksson, M-R Järvelin, A Pouta, A Jula, V Salomaa, C Newton-Cheh. Wrote the paper: EI Gaál, K Rehnström, P Salo, K Kristiansson, V Salomaa, M Perola, A Palotie.