About the Authors

Ingrid Brænne

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

Roles Software

Affiliation Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, München, Germany

Christina Willenborg

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Vinicius Tragante

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Thorsten Kessler

Roles Resources

Affiliation Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, München, Germany

CARDIoGRAM Consortium

The memberships of CARDIoGRAM and CARDIoGRAMplusC4D consortia are provided in the Acknowledgments.

CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium

The memberships of CARDIoGRAM and CARDIoGRAMplusC4D consortia are provided in the Acknowledgments.

Cristen J. Willer

Roles Data curation

Affiliation University of Michigan, Dept of Biostatistics, 1415 Washington Hts, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Markku Laakso

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland

Lars Wallentin

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala Science Park, MTC, Uppsala, Sweden

Paul W. Franks

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden

Veikko Salomaa

Roles Data curation

Affiliation THL-National Institute for Health and Welfare, POB 30, Mannerheimintie 166, Helsinki, Finland

Abbas Dehghan

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Thomas Meitinger

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

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

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

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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.