About the Authors

Andrew A. Hicks

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew A. Hicks, Åsa Johansson, Veronique Vitart, Peter Ugocsai, Yurii Aulchenko

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Peter P. Pramstaller

peter.pramstaller@eurac.edu (PPP); harry.campbell@ed.ac.uk (HC)

Affiliations Institute of Genetic Medicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, Department of Neurology, General Central Hospital, Bolzano, Italy, Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Åsa Johansson

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew A. Hicks, Åsa Johansson, Veronique Vitart, Peter Ugocsai, Yurii Aulchenko

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Veronique Vitart

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew A. Hicks, Åsa Johansson, Veronique Vitart, Peter Ugocsai, Yurii Aulchenko

Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Igor Rudan

Affiliations Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Croatian Centre for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia, Gen-info Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia

Peter Ugocsai

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew A. Hicks, Åsa Johansson, Veronique Vitart, Peter Ugocsai, Yurii Aulchenko

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Yurii Aulchenko

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew A. Hicks, Åsa Johansson, Veronique Vitart, Peter Ugocsai, Yurii Aulchenko

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

Christopher S. Franklin

Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Gerhard Liebisch

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Jeanette Erdmann

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik II, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Inger Jonasson

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Irina V. Zorkoltseva

Affiliation Institute of Cytology and Genetics SD RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

Cristian Pattaro

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Caroline Hayward

Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Aaron Isaacs

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

Christian Hengstenberg

Affiliation Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Susan Campbell

Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Carsten Gnewuch

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

A. CecileJ.W. Janssens

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

Anatoly V. Kirichenko

Affiliation Institute of Cytology and Genetics SD RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

Inke R. König

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Statistik, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Fabio Marroni

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Ozren Polasek

Affiliations Gen-info Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia, Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Ayse Demirkan

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

Ivana Kolcic

Affiliation Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Christine Schwienbacher

Affiliations Institute of Genetic Medicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, Department of Experimental and Diagnostic Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Wilmar Igl

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Zrinka Biloglav

Affiliation Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Jacqueline C. M. Witteman

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

Irene Pichler

Affiliation Institute of Genetic Medicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Ghazal Zaboli

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Tatiana I. Axenovich

Affiliation Institute of Cytology and Genetics SD RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

Annette Peters

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Stefan Schreiber

Affiliation Institut für Klinische Molekularbiologie, Christian-Albrechts Universität, Kiel, Germany

H.-Erich Wichmann

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Information Science, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, LMU Munich, Germany

Heribert Schunkert

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik II, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Nick Hastie

Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Ben A. Oostra

Affiliation Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Sarah H. Wild

Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Thomas Meitinger

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Munich, Germany

Ulf Gyllensten

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Cornelia M. van Duijn

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

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

James F. Wilson

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Alan Wright

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Gerd Schmitz

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Harry Campbell

peter.pramstaller@eurac.edu (PPP); harry.campbell@ed.ac.uk (HC)

Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: P.P. Pramstaller, I. Rudan, J.C.M. Witteman, N. Hastie, B.A. Oostra, T. Meitinger, U. Gyllensten, C.M. van Duijn, J.F. Wilson, A.F. Wright, G. Schmitz, H. Campbell. Performed the experiments: I. Rudan, P. Ugocsai, G. Liebisch, I. Jonasson, C. Hayward, S. Campbell, C. Gnewuch, O. Polasek, I. Kolcic, C. Schwienbacher, Z. Biloglav, I. Pichler, S.H. Wild, T. Meitinger, U. Gyllensten, J.F. Wilson, H. Campbell. Analyzed the data: A.A. Hicks, Å. Johansson, V. Vitart, Y.S. Aulchenko, C.S. Franklin, G. Liebisch, I.V. Zorkolsteva, C. Pattaro, C. Hayward, A. Issacs, A.C.J.W. Janssens, A.V. Kirichenko, F. Marroni, A. Demirkan, W. Igl, G. Zaboli, C.M. van Duijn. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: P.P. Pramstaller, I. Rudan, Y.S. Aulchenko, G. Liebisch, O. Polasek, I. Kolcic, Z. Biloglav, J.C.M. Witteman, T. Axenovich, N. Hastie, B.A. Oostra, T. Meitinger, U. Gyllensten, C.M. van Duijn, J.F. Wilson, A.F. Wright, G. Schmitz, H. Campbell. Wrote the paper: A.A. Hicks, P.P. Pramstaller, Å. Johansson, V. Vitart, I. Rudan, P. Ugocsai, C.M. van Duijn, J.F. Wilson, G. Schmitz, H. Campbell. Responsible for generating the MI association data: J. Erdmann, C. Hengstenberg, I. König, A. Peters, S. Schreiber, H.-E. Wichmann, H. Schunkert.