About the Authors

Muntaser D. Musameh

mdmm2@le.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom, NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

William Y. S. Wang

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Christopher P. Nelson

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom, NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

Carla Lluís-Ganella

Affiliation Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain

Radoslaw Debiec

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom, NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

Isaac Subirana

Affiliations Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain, Epidemiology and Public Health Network (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

Roberto Elosua

Affiliation Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain

Anthony J. Balmforth

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, LIGHT, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Stephen G. Ball

Affiliation University of Leeds, MCRC, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, Leeds, United Kingdom

Alistair S. Hall

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, LIGHT, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Sekar Kathiresan

Affiliation The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

John R. Thompson

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

Gavin Lucas

Affiliation Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain

Nilesh J. Samani

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom, NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

Maciej Tomaszewski

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom, NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDM WYSW JRT RE NJS MT. Performed the experiments: MDM WYSW CPN CL RD IS GL. Analyzed the data: MDM WYSW CPN CL IS GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDM WYSW AJB SGB ASH SK RE NJS MT. Wrote the paper: MDMWYSW NJS MT. Reviewed and revised the manuscript: MDM WYSW CPN CL RD IS RE AJB SGB ASH SK JRT GL NJS MT.