About the Authors

Abdou Mousas

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Georgios Ntritsos

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece

Ming-Huei Chen

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Population Sciences Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States of America

Ci Song

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Population Sciences Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States of America

Jennifer E. Huffman

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Population Sciences Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States of America

Ioanna Tzoulaki

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Paul Elliott

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Bruce M. Psaty

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliations Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Blood-Cell Consortium

A full list of members appears in the S1 Text.

Paul L. Auer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States of America

Andrew D. Johnson

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew D. Johnson, Evangelos Evangelou, Guillaume Lettre, Alexander P. Reiner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Sciences Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States of America

Evangelos Evangelou

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew D. Johnson, Evangelos Evangelou, Guillaume Lettre, Alexander P. Reiner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Guillaume Lettre

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew D. Johnson, Evangelos Evangelou, Guillaume Lettre, Alexander P. Reiner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

apreiner@u.washington.edu (APR); guillaume.lettre@umontreal.ca (GL)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Alexander P. Reiner

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew D. Johnson, Evangelos Evangelou, Guillaume Lettre, Alexander P. Reiner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

apreiner@u.washington.edu (APR); guillaume.lettre@umontreal.ca (GL)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.