About the Authors
- Ani Manichaikul
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Affiliations Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Public Health Sciences, Biostatistics Section, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Xin-Qun Wang
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Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Biostatistics Section, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Solomon K. Musani
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
- David M. Herrington
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Wendy S. Post
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- James G. Wilson
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Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
- Stephen S. Rich
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Affiliation Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Annabelle Rodriguez
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* E-mail: rodriguezoquendo@uchc.edu
Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Rodriguez has inventorship rights through Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for SCARB1 molecular diagnostic testing, and she is the founder of Lipid Genomics Inc. This potential competing interest does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, particularly because the data analyzed in the current manuscript are already available on dbGaP.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SSR AR. Performed the experiments: AM XQW SKM. Analyzed the data: AM XQW SKM JGW SSR AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DMH WSP JGW SSR. Wrote the paper: AM XQW SKM DMH WSP JGW SSR AR.