Six Novel Loci Associated with Circulating VEGF Levels Identified by a Meta-analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies

• Seung Hoan Choi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seung Hoan Choi, Daniela Ruggiero, Rossella Sorice

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Daniela Ruggiero ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seung Hoan Choi, Daniela Ruggiero, Rossella Sorice

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, National Research Council of Italy, Naples, Italy

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• Rossella Sorice ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seung Hoan Choi, Daniela Ruggiero, Rossella Sorice

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, National Research Council of Italy, Naples, Italy

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• Ci Song,

  Affiliations Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Teresa Nutile,

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, National Research Council of Italy, Naples, Italy

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• Albert Vernon Smith,

  Affiliations Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

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• Maria Pina Concas,

  Affiliation Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council of Italy, Sassari, Italy

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• Michela Traglia,

  Affiliation Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

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• Caterina Barbieri,

  Affiliation Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

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• Ndeye Coumba Ndiaye,

  Affiliation UMR INSERM U1122, IGE-PCV “Interactions Gène-Environnement en Physiopathologie Cardio-Vasculaire”, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

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• Maria G. Stathopoulou,

  Affiliation UMR INSERM U1122, IGE-PCV “Interactions Gène-Environnement en Physiopathologie Cardio-Vasculaire”, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

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• Vasiliki Lagou,

  Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Giovanni Battista Maestrale,

  Affiliation Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council of Italy, Sassari, Italy

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• Cinzia Sala,

  Affiliation Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

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• Stephanie Debette,

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, INSERM U897, Bordeaux, France

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• Peter Kovacs,

  Affiliation University of Leipzig, IFB Adiposity Diseases, Leipzig, Germany

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• Lars Lind,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• John Lamont,

  Affiliation Randox Laboratories, Crumlin, United Kingdom

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• Peter Fitzgerald,

  Affiliation Randox Laboratories, Crumlin, United Kingdom

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• Anke Tönjes,

  Affiliation University of Leipzig, Department of Medicine, Leipzig, Germany

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• Vilmundur Gudnason,

  Affiliations Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

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• Daniela Toniolo,

  Affiliation Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

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• Mario Pirastu,

  Affiliation Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council of Italy, Sassari, Italy

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• Celine Bellenguez,

  Affiliations Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France, INSEM U744, Lille, France, Université Lille-Nord de France, Lille, France

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• Ramachandran S. Vasan,

  Affiliations National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Erik Ingelsson,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Anne-Louise Leutenegger,

  Affiliations INSERM U946, Paris, France, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, IUH, UMR-S 946, Paris, France

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• Andrew D. Johnson,

  Affiliation Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Anita L. DeStefano,

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sophie Visvikis-Siest,

  Affiliation UMR INSERM U1122, IGE-PCV “Interactions Gène-Environnement en Physiopathologie Cardio-Vasculaire”, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

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• Sudha Seshadri ,

  * E-mail: suseshad@bu.edu (SS); ciullo@igb.cnr.it (MC)

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Marina Ciullo

  * E-mail: suseshad@bu.edu (SS); ciullo@igb.cnr.it (MC)

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, National Research Council of Italy, Naples, Italy

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