About the Authors

Guillaume Paré

Contributed equally to this work with: Guillaume Paré, Daniel I. Chasman

gpare@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel I. Chasman

Contributed equally to this work with: Guillaume Paré, Daniel I. Chasman

Affiliations Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alexander N. Parker

Affiliation Amgen, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

David M. Nathan

Affiliation Diabetes Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joseph P. Miletich

Affiliation Amgen, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert Y. Zee

Affiliations Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul M. Ridker

Affiliations Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GP DIC DMN PMR. Performed the experiments: GP ANP. Analyzed the data: GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DIC JPM RYZ PMR. Wrote the paper: GP.