About the Authors
- Stephanie Saade
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Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie Saade, Jean-Baptiste Cazier, Michella Ghassibe-Sabbagh
Affiliation School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Jean-Baptiste Cazier
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Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie Saade, Jean-Baptiste Cazier, Michella Ghassibe-Sabbagh
Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Michella Ghassibe-Sabbagh
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Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie Saade, Jean-Baptiste Cazier, Michella Ghassibe-Sabbagh
Affiliation School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Sonia Youhanna
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Danielle A. Badro
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Yoichiro Kamatani
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Affiliation Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH), Paris, France
- Jörg Hager
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Affiliation CEA-Genomics Institute, Centre National de Génotypage, Bât G2, Evry, France
- Joumana S. Yeretzian
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Georges El-Khazen
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Affiliation Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Marc Haber
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Angelique K. Salloum
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Bouchra Douaihy
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Raed Othman
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
- Nabil Shasha
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
- Samer Kabbani
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
- Hamid El Bayeh
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Elie Chammas
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Martin Farrall
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Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Dominique Gauguier
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Affiliations The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom, INSERM UMRS872, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris, France
- Daniel E. Platt
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Affiliation IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America
- Pierre A. Zalloua
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* E-mail: pzalloua@lau.edu.lb
Affiliations School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- the FGENTCARD consortium
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¶For a full list of the members of the FGENTCARD consortium please see the Acknowledgments section.
Competing Interests
Daniel E. Platt is employed at IBM. Ulla Grove Sidelmann is a researcher at Novo Nordisk, Denmark, and Frank Bonner is a researcher at Metabometrix Ltd, UK. The authors declare that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JH MF DG DEP PAZ. Performed the experiments: SS SY. Analyzed the data: SS DAB YK GEK MGS JBC DEP PAZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSY MH RO NS SK HEB EC AS BD. Wrote the paper: SS DAB SY DEP PAZ.