About the Authors
- Guillaume Lettre
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Affiliations Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Canada, Département de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
- Cameron D. Palmer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cameron D. Palmer, Taylor Young, Kenechi G. Ejebe
Affiliations Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Divisions of Genetics and Endocrinology and Program in Genomics, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Taylor Young
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cameron D. Palmer, Taylor Young, Kenechi G. Ejebe
Affiliation Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kenechi G. Ejebe
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cameron D. Palmer, Taylor Young, Kenechi G. Ejebe
Affiliation Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Hooman Allayee
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Emelia J. Benjamin
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Framingham Heart Study of the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Franklyn Bennett
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Affiliation Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
- Donald W. Bowden
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Affiliation Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Aravinda Chakravarti
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Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Al Dreisbach
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Mississipi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
- Deborah N. Farlow
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Affiliation Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Aaron R. Folsom
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Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Myriam Fornage
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine and Division of Epidemiology School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Terrence Forrester
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Affiliation Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
- Ervin Fox
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Mississipi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
- Christopher A. Haiman
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Jaana Hartiala
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Tamara B. Harris
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Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Stanley L. Hazen
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Affiliation Departments of Cell Biology and Cardiovascular Medicine, The Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Prevention, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Susan R. Heckbert
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Affiliations Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 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
- Brian E. Henderson
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Joel N. Hirschhorn
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Affiliations Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Divisions of Genetics and Endocrinology and Program in Genomics, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Brendan J. Keating
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Affiliation Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Stephen B. Kritchevsky
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Affiliation J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Emma Larkin
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Affiliation Case Western Reserve University, Center for Clinical Investigation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Mingyao Li
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Affiliation Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Megan E. Rudock
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Colin A. McKenzie
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Affiliation Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
- James B. Meigs
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Yang A. Meng
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Affiliation Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Tom H. Mosley Jr.
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Mississipi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
- Anne B. Newman
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Affiliation Center for Aging and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Christopher H. Newton-Cheh
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Affiliations Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Framingham Heart Study of the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cardiovascular Research Center and Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Dina N. Paltoo
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Affiliation National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- George J. Papanicolaou
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Affiliation National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Nick Patterson
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Affiliation Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Wendy S. Post
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Bruce M. Psaty
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Affiliations Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 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
- Atif N. Qasim
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Affiliation The Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Liming Qu
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Affiliation Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Daniel J. Rader
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Affiliations The Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Susan Redline
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Affiliation Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Muredach P. Reilly
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Affiliations The Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Alexander P. Reiner
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Stephen S. Rich
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Affiliation Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Jerome I. Rotter
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Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Yongmei Liu
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Peter Shrader
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Affiliation General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- David S. Siscovick
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Affiliations Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- W. H. Wilson Tang
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Affiliation Departments of Cell Biology and Cardiovascular Medicine, The Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Prevention, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Herman A. Taylor Jr.
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Mississipi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi, United States of America
- Russell P. Tracy
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Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Biochemistry, University of Vermont, Colchester, Vermont, United States of America
- Ramachandran S. Vasan
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Framingham Heart Study of the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kevin M. Waters
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Rainford Wilks
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Affiliation Epidemiology Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
- James G. Wilson
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Mississipi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
- Richard R. Fabsitz
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Affiliation National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Stacey B. Gabriel
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Affiliation Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Sekar Kathiresan
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Affiliations Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Framingham Heart Study of the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cardiovascular Research Center and Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Eric Boerwinkle
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* E-mail: Eric.Boerwinkle@uth.tmc.edu
Affiliation Human Genetics Center and Institute of Molecular Medicine and Division of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
JBM has a research grant from GSK and a consulting agreement with Interleukin Genetics, SLH reports being listed as co-inventor on pending and issued patents held by the Cleveland Clinic relating to cardiovascular diagnostics. SLH reports having been paid as a consultant or speaker for the following companies: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, BG Medicine, Merck & Co., Pfizer Takeda, Esperion, and Cleveland Heart Lab. SLH reports receiving research funds from Abbott, Liposcience, and Cleveland Heart Lab. WHWT reports receiving research grant support from Abbott Laboratories.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GL TY KGE SK EB. Performed the experiments: GL CDP KGE. Analyzed the data: GL CDP KGE SK EB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL CDP TY KGE HA EJB FB DWB AC AD DNF ARF MF TF EF CAH JH TBH SLH SRH BEH JNH BJK SBK EL ML MER CAM JBM YAM THM ABN CHNC DNP GJP NP WSP BMP ANQ LQ DJR SR MPR APR SSR JIR YL PS DSS WHWT HAT RPT RSV KMW RW JGW RRF SBG SK EB. Wrote the paper: GL EB.