About the Authors

Despoina Manousaki

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Lavinia Paternoster

Affiliation MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social & Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Marie Standl

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München–German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Miriam F. Moffatt

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Martin Farrall

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Emmanuelle Bouzigon

Affiliation Genetic Variation and Human Diseases Unit, UMR-946, INSERM, Université Paris Diderot, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

David P. Strachan

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom

Florence Demenais

Affiliation Genetic Variation and Human Diseases Unit, UMR-946, INSERM, Université Paris Diderot, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Mark Lathrop

Affiliation McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre, Montréal, Canada

William O. C. M. Cookson

Affiliations National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

J. Brent Richards

brent.richards@mcgill.ca

Affiliations Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JBR WOCMC DM. Data curation: JBR DM LP MS MFM MF DPS EB ML FD. Formal analysis: JBR DM. Funding acquisition: JBR. Investigation: JBR DM. Project administration: JBR. Software: JBR DM. Supervision: JBR. Visualization: JBR DM. Writing – original draft: DM JBR. Writing – review & editing: MFM FD EB LP MS WOCMC MF DPS ML.