About the Authors
- Siim Sõber
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Elin Org
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Katrin Kepp
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Peeter Juhanson
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Susana Eyheramendy
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Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Statistics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Christian Gieger
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Peter Lichtner
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Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Norman Klopp
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Gudrun Veldre
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Affiliations Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Cardiology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Margus Viigimaa
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Affiliation Centre of Cardiology, North Estonia Medical Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
- Angela Döring
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- for the Kooperative Gesundheitsforschung in der Region Augsburg study
- Margus Putku
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Piret Kelgo
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- for the HYPertension in ESTonia study
- Sue Shaw-Hawkins
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Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and The Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom
- Philip Howard
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Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and The Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom
- Abiodun Onipinla
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Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and The Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom
- Richard J. Dobson
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Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and The Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom
- Stephen J. Newhouse
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Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and The Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom
- Morris Brown
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Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology Unit, University of Cambridge, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Anna Dominiczak
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Affiliation Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- John Connell
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Affiliation Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Nilesh Samani
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Affiliation Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Martin Farrall
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Affiliation Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom
- for the MRC British Genetics of Hypertension study
- Mark J. Caulfield
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Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and The Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom
- Patricia B. Munroe
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Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and The Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom
- Thomas Illig
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- H.-Erich Wichmann
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Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- Thomas Meitinger
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Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Maris Laan
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* E-mail: maris.laan@ut.ee
Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SS EO KK ML. Performed the experiments: SS EO PJ PL NK PK SSH PH AKO RD TI. Analyzed the data: SS EO KK SE CG SJN ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SE MV MJC PM TI HEW TM ML. Wrote the paper: SS ML. HYPEST sample collection: Acquisition of the phenotype data: ML EO PJ GV MV MP PK. KORA cohort: Acquisition of the phenotype data: CG AD TI HEW. BRIGHT sample collection: Acquisition of the phenotype data: MB AD JC NJS MF MJC PM.