About the Authors
- Taru Tukiainen
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Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, 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
- Matti Pirinen
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Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Antti-Pekka Sarin
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Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Unit of Public Health Genomics, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Claes Ladenvall
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University and Lund University Diabetes Centre, CRC at Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
- Johannes Kettunen
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Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Unit of Public Health Genomics, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Terho Lehtimäki
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
- Marja-Liisa Lokki
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Affiliation Transplantation Laboratory, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Markus Perola
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Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Juha Sinisalo
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Efthymia Vlachopoulou
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Affiliation Transplantation Laboratory, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Johan G. Eriksson
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Affiliations Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Department of General Practice and Primary Healthcare, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Unit of General Practice, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
- Leif Groop
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Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University and Lund University Diabetes Centre, CRC at Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
- Antti Jula
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Affiliation Population Studies Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Turku, Finland
- Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Health Protection Agency (HPA) Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, Department of Children and Young People and Families, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland
- Olli T. Raitakari
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Affiliations Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Veikko Salomaa
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Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Samuli Ripatti
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* E-mail: samuli.ripatti@helsinki.fi
Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Unit of Public Health Genomics, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TT MPi JK SR. Analyzed the data: TT MPi APS CL JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TT MPi APS CL JK TL MLL MPe JS EV JGE LG AJ MRJ OTR VS SR. Wrote the paper: TT MPi SR.