About the Authors
- Ci Song
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Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Nancy L. Pedersen
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Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Chandra A. Reynolds
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Affiliation University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
- Maria Sabater-Lleal
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Affiliation Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Stavroula Kanoni
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Christina Willenborg
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Affiliations Universität zu Lübeck, Medizinische Klinik II, Lübeck, Germany, Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung (DZHK), Lübeck, Germany
- the CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium
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¶Membership of the CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium is provided in
File S1 . - Ann-Christine Syvänen
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Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Hugh Watkins
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Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Anders Hamsten
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Affiliations Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Jonathan A. Prince
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Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Erik Ingelsson
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* E-mail: erik.ingelsson@medsci.uu.se
Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Competing Interests
Several authors of the original CARDIoGRAMplusC4D study that provided in silico data for one SNP of the present study are employees of deCODE genetics. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CS NLP CAR JAP EI. Performed the experiments: CS NLP CAR MS-L SK CW ACS HW AH JAP EI. Analyzed the data: CS MS-L SK CW EI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NLP CAR ACS HW AH JAP EI. Wrote the paper: CS EI.