About the Authors
- Ingrid Brænne
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, DZHK (German Research Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Lübeck/Kiel, Lübeck, Germany, University Heart Center Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Lingyao Zeng
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Roles Software
Affiliation Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
- Christina Willenborg
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Roles Formal analysis, Software
Affiliation Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Vinicius Tragante
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Roles Methodology
Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Thorsten Kessler
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
- CARDIoGRAM Consortium
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¶The memberships of CARDIoGRAM and CARDIoGRAMplusC4D consortia are provided in the Acknowledgments.
- CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium
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¶The memberships of CARDIoGRAM and CARDIoGRAMplusC4D consortia are provided in the Acknowledgments.
- Cristen J. Willer
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation University of Michigan, Dept of Biostatistics, 1415 Washington Hts, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
- Markku Laakso
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- Lars Wallentin
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala Science Park, MTC, Uppsala, Sweden
- Paul W. Franks
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
- Veikko Salomaa
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, POB 30, Mannerheimintie 166, Helsinki, Finland
- Abbas Dehghan
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Thomas Meitinger
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Roles Data curation
Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Nilesh J. Samani
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Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Sciences University of Leicester and NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Folkert W. Asselbergs
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Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft
Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Durrer Center for Cardiovascular Research,Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Jeanette Erdmann
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Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: jeanette.erdmann@uni-luebeck.de
Affiliations Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, DZHK (German Research Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Lübeck/Kiel, Lübeck, Germany, University Heart Center Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Heribert Schunkert
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Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, München, Germany, DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
Competing Interests
P.W.F. reports grants from Sanofi Aventis, grants from Lilly, grants from Novo nordisk, personal fees from Sanofi Aventis, personal fees from Lilly. L.W. reports institutional research grants, consultancy fees, lecture fees, and travel support from AstraZeneca, institutional research grants, consultancy fees, lecture fees, and travel support from Boehringer Ingelheim, institutional research grants, consultancy fees, lecture fees, and travel support from Bristol-Myers Squibb/Pfizer, grants from Merck & Co, grants from Roche, consultancy fees from Abbott and holds two patents involving GDF-15. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.