About the Authors

Ron Do

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Changchun Xie

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Xiaohe Zhang

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Satu Männistö

Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Kennet Harald

Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Shofiqul Islam

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Swneke D. Bailey

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Sumathy Rangarajan

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Matthew J. McQueen

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Rafael Diaz

Affiliation Estudios Cardiologicos Latinoamerica, Rosario, Argentina

Liu Lisheng

Affiliation Cardiovascular Institute and Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Hypertension League Institute, Beijing, China

Xingyu Wang

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Genetics, Beijing Hypertension League Institute, Beijing, China

Kaisa Silander

Affiliations Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Human Genomics Unit, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Leena Peltonen

† Deceased.

Affiliations Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Human Genomics Unit, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Salim Yusuf

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Veikko Salomaa

Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

James C. Engert

jamie.engert@mcgill.ca (JCE); anands@mcmaster.ca (SSA)

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Sonia S. Anand

jamie.engert@mcgill.ca (JCE); anands@mcmaster.ca (SSA)

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

on behalf of the INTERHEART investigators

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDo SSA JCE VS. Performed the experiments: RDo. Analyzed the data: RDo CX XZ SM KH KS SI SDB VS SSA JCE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR MJM LP VS RDiaz LL XW SY. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: RDo. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RDo SSA JCE VS SY. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: RDo CX XZ SM KH SI SDB SR MJM RDiaz LL XW KS LP SSA JCE VS SY. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: RDo CX XZ SM KH SI SDB SR MJM RDiaz LL XW KS LP SSA JCE VS SY.

† Deceased.