About the Authors
- Cecilia M. Lindgren
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cecilia M. Lindgren, Iris M. Heid, Joshua C. Randall, Claudia Lamina, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir
Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, , Oxford, United Kingdom
- Iris M. Heid
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cecilia M. Lindgren, Iris M. Heid, Joshua C. Randall, Claudia Lamina, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir
Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Joshua C. Randall
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cecilia M. Lindgren, Iris M. Heid, Joshua C. Randall, Claudia Lamina, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir
Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, , Oxford, United Kingdom
- Claudia Lamina
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cecilia M. Lindgren, Iris M. Heid, Joshua C. Randall, Claudia Lamina, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir
Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cecilia M. Lindgren, Iris M. Heid, Joshua C. Randall, Claudia Lamina, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir
Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Lu Qi
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Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Elizabeth K. Speliotes
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Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Metabolism Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Gudmar Thorleifsson
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Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Cristen J. Willer
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Blanca M. Herrera
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Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, , Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Anne U. Jackson
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Noha Lim
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Affiliation Medical Genetics, Clinical Pharmacology and Discovery Medicine, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Paul Scheet
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Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Nicole Soranzo
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Affiliations Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Najaf Amin
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Yurii S. Aulchenko
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- John C. Chambers
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Alexander Drong
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, , Oxford, United Kingdom
- Jian'an Luan
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Helen N. Lyon
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Affiliations Metabolism Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Divisions of Genetics and Endocrinology, Program in Genomics, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Fernando Rivadeneira
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Serena Sanna
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Affiliation Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cagliari, Italy
- Nicholas J. Timpson
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Affiliation The MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- M. Carola Zillikens
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Jing Hua Zhao
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Peter Almgren
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes, and Endocrinology Research Unit, University Hospital Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Stefania Bandinelli
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Affiliation Geriatric Unit, Azienda Sanitaria Firenze (ASF), Florence, Italy
- Amanda J. Bennett
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Affiliation Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Richard N. Bergman
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Affiliation Physiology and Biophysics, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Lori L. Bonnycastle
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Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Suzannah J. Bumpstead
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Stephen J. Chanock
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Affiliation Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Lynn Cherkas
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Affiliation Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Peter Chines
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Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Lachlan Coin
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Cyrus Cooper
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Gabriel Crawford
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Affiliation Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Angela Doering
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Anna Dominiczak
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Affiliation BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Alex S. F. Doney
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Affiliation Diabetes Research Group, Division of Medicine and Therapeutics, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
- Shah Ebrahim
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Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Paul Elliott
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Michael R. Erdos
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Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Karol Estrada
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Luigi Ferrucci
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Affiliation Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Guido Fischer
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Nita G. Forouhi
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Christian Gieger
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Harald Grallert
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Christopher J. Groves
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Affiliation Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Scott Grundy
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Affiliation Centre for Human Nutrition, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Candace Guiducci
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Affiliation Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- David Hadley
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Affiliation Division of Community Health Sciences, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Anders Hamsten
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Affiliation Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Aki S. Havulinna
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Affiliation KTL-National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- Albert Hofman
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Rolf Holle
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- John W. Holloway
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Affiliations MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Division of Human Genetics, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Thomas Illig
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Bo Isomaa
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Affiliation Folkhälsan Research Center, Malmska Municipal Health Center and Hospital, Jakobstad, Finland
- Leonie C. Jacobs
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Karen Jameson
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Pekka Jousilahti
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Affiliation KTL-National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- Fredrik Karpe
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Affiliation Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Johanna Kuusisto
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Jaana Laitinen
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Affiliation Finnish Institute of Occpational Health, Oulu, Finland
- G. Mark Lathrop
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Affiliation Centre National de Genotypage, Evry, France
- Debbie A. Lawlor
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Affiliations The MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Massimo Mangino
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Affiliation Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Wendy L. McArdle
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Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Thomas Meitinger
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Mario A. Morken
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Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Andrew P. Morris
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, , Oxford, United Kingdom
- Patricia Munroe
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Affiliation The William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Narisu Narisu
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Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Anna Nordström
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Affiliations Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Section for Sports Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Section of Geriatrics, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden
- Peter Nordström
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Affiliations Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Section for Sports Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Section of Geriatrics, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden
- Ben A. Oostra
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Colin N. A. Palmer
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Affiliation Population Pharmacogenetics Group, Biomedical Research Centre, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
- Felicity Payne
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- John F. Peden
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Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, , Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Inga Prokopenko
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, , Oxford, United Kingdom
- Frida Renström
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Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology and Clinical Research Group, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section for Medicine, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden
- Aimo Ruokonen
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Veikko Salomaa
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Affiliation KTL-National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- Manjinder S. Sandhu
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Affiliations MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Laura J. Scott
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Angelo Scuteri
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Affiliation Unita' Operativa Geriatrica, Instituto Nazionale Ricovero e Cura per Anziani (INRCA) IRCCS, Rome, Italy
- Kaisa Silander
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- Kijoung Song
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Affiliation Medical Genetics, Clinical Pharmacology and Discovery Medicine, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Xin Yuan
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Affiliation Medical Genetics, Clinical Pharmacology and Discovery Medicine, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Heather M. Stringham
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Amy J. Swift
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Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Tiinamaija Tuomi
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Research Program of Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Manuela Uda
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Affiliation Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cagliari, Italy
- Peter Vollenweider
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Affiliation Department of Medicine and Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Gerard Waeber
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Affiliation Department of Medicine and Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Chris Wallace
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Affiliation The William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- G. Bragi Walters
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Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Michael N. Weedon
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Affiliation Genetics of Complex Traits, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom
- The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium
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¶A full list of members is provided in
Text S1 . - Jacqueline C. M. Witteman
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Cuilin Zhang
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Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Weihua Zhang
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Affiliation Ealing Hospital, Ealing Hospital National Health Service Trust, Southall, London, United Kingdom
- Mark J. Caulfield
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Affiliation The William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Francis S. Collins
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Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- George Davey Smith
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Affiliations The MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Ian N. M. Day
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Affiliation Bristol Genetic Epidemiology Laboratories, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Paul W. Franks
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Affiliations Genetic Epidemiology and Clinical Research Group, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section for Medicine, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section for Nutritional Research (Umeå Medical Biobank), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Andrew T. Hattersley
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Affiliation Genetics of Complex Traits, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom
- Frank B. Hu
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Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Department of Child and Adolescent Health, National Public Health Institute, Oulu, Finland
- Augustine Kong
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Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Jaspal S. Kooner
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Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Markku Laakso
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Edward Lakatta
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Affiliation Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of Ameica
- Vincent Mooser
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Affiliation Medical Genetics, Clinical Pharmacology and Discovery Medicine, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Andrew D. Morris
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Affiliation Diabetes Research Group, Division of Medicine and Therapeutics, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
- Leena Peltonen
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Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Nilesh J. Samani
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Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Timothy D. Spector
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Affiliation Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- David P. Strachan
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Affiliation Division of Community Health Sciences, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Toshiko Tanaka
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Affiliations Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Medstar Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Jaakko Tuomilehto
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Affiliation Diabetes Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- André G. Uitterlinden
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Cornelia M. van Duijn
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Nicholas J. Wareham
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Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Hugh Watkins for the PROCARDIS consortia
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Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, , Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Dawn M. Waterworth
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Affiliation Medical Genetics, Clinical Pharmacology and Discovery Medicine, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Michael Boehnke
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Panos Deloukas
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Affiliation Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Leif Groop
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Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes, and Endocrinology Research Unit, University Hospital Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- David J. Hunter
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Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
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Affiliations deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
- David Schlessinger
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Affiliation Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of Ameica
- H.-Erich Wichmann
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Timothy M. Frayling
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Affiliation Genetics of Complex Traits, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom
- Gonçalo R. Abecasis
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* E-mail: goncalo@umich.edu (GRA); joelh@broad.mit.edu (JNH); rjfl2@medschl.cam.ac.uk (RJFL); kari.stefansson@decode.is (KS); mohlke@med.unc.edu (KLM); ib1@sanger.ac.uk (IB); mark.mccarthy@drl.ox.ac.uk (MIM)
Affiliation Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Joel N. Hirschhorn
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* E-mail: goncalo@umich.edu (GRA); joelh@broad.mit.edu (JNH); rjfl2@medschl.cam.ac.uk (RJFL); kari.stefansson@decode.is (KS); mohlke@med.unc.edu (KLM); ib1@sanger.ac.uk (IB); mark.mccarthy@drl.ox.ac.uk (MIM)
Affiliations Metabolism Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Divisions of Genetics and Endocrinology, Program in Genomics, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ruth J. F. Loos
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* E-mail: goncalo@umich.edu (GRA); joelh@broad.mit.edu (JNH); rjfl2@medschl.cam.ac.uk (RJFL); kari.stefansson@decode.is (KS); mohlke@med.unc.edu (KLM); ib1@sanger.ac.uk (IB); mark.mccarthy@drl.ox.ac.uk (MIM)
Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Kari Stefansson
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* E-mail: goncalo@umich.edu (GRA); joelh@broad.mit.edu (JNH); rjfl2@medschl.cam.ac.uk (RJFL); kari.stefansson@decode.is (KS); mohlke@med.unc.edu (KLM); ib1@sanger.ac.uk (IB); mark.mccarthy@drl.ox.ac.uk (MIM)
Affiliations deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
- Karen L. Mohlke
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* E-mail: goncalo@umich.edu (GRA); joelh@broad.mit.edu (JNH); rjfl2@medschl.cam.ac.uk (RJFL); kari.stefansson@decode.is (KS); mohlke@med.unc.edu (KLM); ib1@sanger.ac.uk (IB); mark.mccarthy@drl.ox.ac.uk (MIM)
Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Inês Barroso
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* E-mail: goncalo@umich.edu (GRA); joelh@broad.mit.edu (JNH); rjfl2@medschl.cam.ac.uk (RJFL); kari.stefansson@decode.is (KS); mohlke@med.unc.edu (KLM); ib1@sanger.ac.uk (IB); mark.mccarthy@drl.ox.ac.uk (MIM)
Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Mark I. McCarthy for the GIANT consortium
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* E-mail: goncalo@umich.edu (GRA); joelh@broad.mit.edu (JNH); rjfl2@medschl.cam.ac.uk (RJFL); kari.stefansson@decode.is (KS); mohlke@med.unc.edu (KLM); ib1@sanger.ac.uk (IB); mark.mccarthy@drl.ox.ac.uk (MIM)
Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, , Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research, Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors from Decode Genetics Inc. own stocks and stock options in the company. VM, NL, KS and DMW are full-time employees of GlaxoSmithKline, a pharmaceutical company. The other authors have no competing interests to declare.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: C. Lindgren, I. Heid, J. Randall., C. Lamina, V. Steinthorsdottir, L. Peltonen, I. Barroso, M. McCarthy. Performed the experiments: J. Zhao, A. Bennett, G. Crawford, A. Dominiczak, C. Groves, C. Guiducci, F. Payne, J. Peden, L. Scott, K. Silander, H. Stringham, T. Tuomi, M. Uda, P. Vollenweider, G. Waeber, J. Witteman. Analyzed the data: C. Lindgren, I. Heid, J. Randall., C. Lamina, V. Steinthorsdottir., L. Qi, E. Speliotes, G. Thorleifsson, C. Willer, B. Herrera, A. Jackson, N. Lim, P. Scheet, N. Soranzo, N. Amin, Y. Aulchenko, J. Chambers, A. Drong, J. Luan, H. Lyon, F. Rivadeneira, S. Sanna, N. Timpson, M. Zillikens, P. Almgren, S. Bandinelli, A. Bennett, R. Bergman, L. Bonnycastle, S. Bumpstead, S. Chanock, L. Cherkas, P. Chines, L. Coin, C. Cooper, G. Crawford, A. Doering, A. Dominiczak, A. Doney, S. Ebrahim, P. Elliott, M. Erdos, K. Estrada, L. Ferrucci, G. Fischer, N. Forouhi, C. Gieger, H. Grallert, C. Groves, S. Grundy, C. Guiducci, D. Hadley, A. Hamsten, A. Havulinna, A. Hofman, R. Holle, J. Holloway, T. Illig, B. Isomaa, L. Jacobs, K. Jameson, P. Jousilahti, J. Kuusisto, J. Laitinen, G. Lathrop, D. Lawlor, M. Mangino, W. McArdle, T. Meitinger, M. Morken, A. Morris, P. Munroe, N. Narisu, Anna Nordström, P. Nordström, B. Oostra, C. Palmer, F. Payne, J. Peden, I. Prokopenko, F. Renström, A. Ruokonen, M. Sandhu, L. Scott, A. Scuteri, K. Silander, K. Song, X. Yuan, H. Stringham, A. Swift, C. Wallace, G. Walters, M. Weedon, C. Zhang, W. Zhang, A. Kong, D. Strachan, T. Tanaka, C. Van Duijn, D. Waterworth, T. Frayling, R. Loos. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: S. Chanock, L. Cherkas, P. Chines, C. Cooper, A. Doering, A. Doney, S. Ebrahim, A. Hamsten, B. Isomaa, P. Jousilahti, F. Karpe, J. Kuusisto, J. Laitinen, G. Lathrop, D. Lawlor, T. Meitinger, A. Morris, P. Munroe, A. Nordström, P. Nordström, B. Oostra, C. Palmer, F. Renström, A. Ruokonen, V. Salomaa, M. Sandhu, A. Scuteri, A. Swift, T. Tuomi, M. Uda, P. Vollenweider, G. Waeber, J. Witteman, M. Caulfield, F. Collins, G. Davey Smith, I. Day, P. Franks, A. Hattersley, F. Hu, M-R. Jarvelin, A. Kong, J. Kooner, M. Laakso, E. Lakatta, V. Mooser, A. Morris, L. Peltonen, N. Samani, T. Spector, D. Strachan, T. Tanaka, J. Tuomilehto, A. Uitterlinden, C. Van Duijn, N. Wareham, H. Watkins, D. Waterworth, M. Boehnke, P. Deloukas, L. Groop, D. Hunter, U.Thorsteinsdottir, D. Schlessinger, H. Wichmann, T. Frayling, G. Abecasis, J. Hirschhorn, R. Loos, K. Mohlke, I. Barroso, M. McCarthy. Wrote the paper: C. Lindgren, I. Heid, J. Randall., C. Lamina, V. Steinthorsdottir., L. Qi, E. Speliotes, G. Thorleifsson, C. Willer, C. Van Duijn, M. Boehnke, U.Thorsteinsdottir, G. Abecasis, J. Hirschhorn, R. Loos, K. Stefansson, K. Mohlke, I. Barroso, M. McCarthy. Directed the project: G. Abecasis, J. Hirschhorn, R. Loos, K. Stefansson, K. Mohlke, I. Barroso, M. McCarthy.