About the Authors
- Søren D. Østergaard
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Affiliations Research Department P, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Shubhabrata Mukherjee
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Stephen J. Sharp
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Petroula Proitsi
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Affiliation Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, United Kingdom
- Luca A. Lotta
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Felix Day
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- John R. B. Perry
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Kevin L. Boehme
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America
- Stefan Walter
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- John S. Kauwe
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America
- Laura E. Gibbons
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium
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¶Membership of the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium, the Genetic and Environmental Risk in AD (GERAD1) Consortium, and the EPIC-InterAct Consortium is provided in
S1 Text . Data used in the preparation of this article were obtained from GERAD1. As such, the investigators within GERAD1 contributed to the design and implementation of GERAD1 and/or provided data but did not participate in the analysis or writing of this report. - The GERAD1 Consortium
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¶Membership of the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium, the Genetic and Environmental Risk in AD (GERAD1) Consortium, and the EPIC-InterAct Consortium is provided in
S1 Text . Data used in the preparation of this article were obtained from GERAD1. As such, the investigators within GERAD1 contributed to the design and implementation of GERAD1 and/or provided data but did not participate in the analysis or writing of this report. - EPIC-InterAct Consortium
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¶Membership of the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium, the Genetic and Environmental Risk in AD (GERAD1) Consortium, and the EPIC-InterAct Consortium is provided in
S1 Text . Data used in the preparation of this article were obtained from GERAD1. As such, the investigators within GERAD1 contributed to the design and implementation of GERAD1 and/or provided data but did not participate in the analysis or writing of this report. - Eric B. Larson
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- John F. Powell
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Affiliation Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, United Kingdom
- Claudia Langenberg
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Paul K. Crane
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Nicholas J. Wareham
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Robert A. Scott
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* E-mail: Robert.Scott@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
SDØ has received speaking fees, consultant honoraria and travel support from Janssen-Cilag until April 2011. Furthermore, he has received travel support at one occasion in 2010 from Bristol-Myers Squibb. EBL reports grants from National Institute on Aging during the conduct of the study, and personal fees from UpToDate outside the submitted work. All other authors have nothing to disclose.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SDØ SM SJS PP LAL JFP PKC NJW RAS. Analyzed the data: SDØ SM SJS PP LAL FD JRBP JP RAS. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: SDØ SM PKC NJW RAS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SDØ SM SJS PP LAL FD JRBP KLB SW JSK LEG EBL JFP CL PKC NJW RAS. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: SDØ SM SJS PP LAL FD JRBP KLB SW JSK LEG EBL JFP CL PKC NJW RAS. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.