About the Authors
- Conall M. O'Seaghdha
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¶Writing group.
Affiliations National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study and Center for Population Studies, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Renal Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Hongsheng Wu
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Affiliations National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study and Center for Population Studies, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medical Biology, University of Split, School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
- Qiong Yang
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Affiliations National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study and Center for Population Studies, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Karen Kapur
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Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Idris Guessous
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¶Writing group.
Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland, Unit of Population Epidemiology, Division of Primary Care Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland, Geriatric Unit, Azienda Sanitaria Firenze (ASF), Florence, Italy
- Annie Mercier Zuber
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Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Anna Köttgen
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¶Writing group.
Affiliations Renal Division, Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Candice Stoudmann
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Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Alexander Teumer
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Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Zoltán Kutalik
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Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Massimo Mangino
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Affiliation King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom
- Abbas Dehghan
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Weihua Zhang
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Affiliations Catheter Lab, Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Gudny Eiriksdottir
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Affiliation Icelandic Heart Association Research Institute, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Guo Li
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Affiliation Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Toshiko Tanaka
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Affiliation Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Laura Portas
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Affiliation Institute of Population Genetics, CNR-Traversa La Crucca, Reg. Baldinca Li Punti, Sassari, Italy
- Lorna M. Lopez
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Affiliation Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Caroline Hayward
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Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Kurt Lohman
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Affiliation Cardiology Group, ClinPhenomics GmbH&Co KG, Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, Germany
- Koichi Matsuda
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Sandosh Padmanabhan
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Affiliation BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
- Dmitri Firsov
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Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Rossella Sorice
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics ‘Adriano-Buzzati Traverso’, CNR, Napoli, Italy
- Sheila Ulivi
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Affiliation Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
- A. Catharina Brockhaus
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Affiliations Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Marcus E. Kleber
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine II – Cardiology, University of Ulm Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany, Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
- Anubha Mahajan
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Florian D. Ernst
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Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Vilmundur Gudnason
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Affiliations Icelandic Heart Association Research Institute, Kopavogur, Iceland, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Lenore J. Launer
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Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Aurelien Mace
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Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Eric Boerwinckle
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Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Dan E. Arking
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Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Chizu Tanikawa
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Yusuke Nakamura
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Morris J. Brown
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Affiliation Cambridge Institute of Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Jean-Michel Gaspoz
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Jean-Marc Theler
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Affiliation Unit of Population Epidemiology, Division of Primary Care Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
- David S. Siscovick
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Affiliations Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Bruce M. Psaty
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Affiliations Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Sven Bergmann
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Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Peter Vollenweider
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Veronique Vitart
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Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Alan F. Wright
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Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Tatijana Zemunik
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
- Mladen Boban
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Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
- Ivana Kolcic
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
- Pau Navarro
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Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Edward M. Brown
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Affiliation Division of Laboratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
- Karol Estrada
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jingzhong Ding
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Affiliation Division of Laboratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
- Tamara B. Harris
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Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Stefania Bandinelli
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Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Dena Hernandez
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Affiliation Molecular Genetics Section, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Andrew B. Singleton
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Affiliation Molecular Genetics Section, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Giorgia Girotto
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Affiliation Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
- Daniela Ruggiero
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics ‘Adriano-Buzzati Traverso’, CNR, Napoli, Italy
- Adamo Pio d'Adamo
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Affiliation Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
- Antonietta Robino
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Affiliation Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
- Thomas Meitinger
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Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Computer Science and Networking, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Christa Meisinger
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Gail Davies
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Affiliation Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- John M. Starr
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Affiliation Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- John C. Chambers
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Affiliations Catheter Lab, Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
- Bernhard O. Boehm
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Affiliations Ulm University Medical Centre, Department of Internal Medicine I, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, LKC School of Medicine, Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
- Bernhard R. Winkelmann
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Jie Huang
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Affiliation Division of Primary Care Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care and Emergency Medicine , Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
- Federico Murgia
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Affiliation Institute of Population Genetics, CNR-Traversa La Crucca, Reg. Baldinca Li Punti, Sassari, Italy
- Sarah H. Wild
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Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Harry Campbell
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Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Andrew P. Morris
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oscar H. Franco
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Albert Hofman
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Andre G. Uitterlinden
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Fernando Rivadeneira
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Uwe Völker
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Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Anke Hannemann
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Reiner Biffar
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Affiliation Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Gerostomatology and Dental Materials, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Wolfgang Hoffmann
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Affiliation Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- So–Youn Shin
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Affiliation Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Pierre Lescuyer
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Hughes Henry
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Affiliation Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Claudia Schurmann
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Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- The SUNLIGHT consortium
- The GEFOS consortium
- Patricia B. Munroe
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Affiliation William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Paolo Gasparini
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Affiliation Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
- Nicola Pirastu
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Affiliation Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy
- Marina Ciullo
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics ‘Adriano-Buzzati Traverso’, CNR, Napoli, Italy
- Christian Gieger
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Affiliation Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Winfried März
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Affiliations Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany, Synlab Centre of Laboratory Diagnostics, Heidelberg, Germany
- Lars Lind
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
- Tim D. Spector
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Affiliation King's College London, St. Thomas' Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom
- Albert V. Smith
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Affiliations Icelandic Heart Association Research Institute, Kopavogur, Iceland, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Igor Rudan
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Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- James F. Wilson
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Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Ozren Polasek
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
- Ian J. Deary
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Affiliation Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Mario Pirastu
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Affiliation Institute of Population Genetics, CNR-Traversa La Crucca, Reg. Baldinca Li Punti, Sassari, Italy
- Luigi Ferrucci
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Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Yongmei Liu
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Bryan Kestenbaum
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Jaspal S. Kooner
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Affiliations Catheter Lab, Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom, Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Cardiovascular Science, Hammersmith Hospital, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Jacqueline C. M. Witteman
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Matthias Nauck
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- W. H. Linda Kao
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Henri Wallaschofski
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¶Writing group.
Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Olivier Bonny
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Contributed equally to this work with: Olivier Bonny, Caroline S. Fox, Murielle Bochud
¶Writing group.
Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Service of Nephrology, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Caroline S. Fox
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Contributed equally to this work with: Olivier Bonny, Caroline S. Fox, Murielle Bochud
* E-mail: foxca@nhlbi.nih.gov (CF); Murielle.Bochud@chuv.ch (MB)
¶Writing group.
Affiliations National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study and Center for Population Studies, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Endocrinology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Murielle Bochud
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Contributed equally to this work with: Olivier Bonny, Caroline S. Fox, Murielle Bochud
* E-mail: foxca@nhlbi.nih.gov (CF); Murielle.Bochud@chuv.ch (MB)
¶Writing group.
Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
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