About the Authors
- Ron Do
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Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Changchun Xie
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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
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Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Satu Männistö
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Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Kennet Harald
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Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Shofiqul Islam
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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
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Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Sumathy Rangarajan
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Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Matthew J. McQueen
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Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Rafael Diaz
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Affiliation Estudios Cardiologicos Latinoamerica, Rosario, Argentina
- Liu Lisheng
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Affiliation Cardiovascular Institute and Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Hypertension League Institute, Beijing, China
- Xingyu Wang
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Affiliation Laboratory of Human Genetics, Beijing Hypertension League Institute, Beijing, China
- Kaisa Silander
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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
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† 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
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Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Veikko Salomaa
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Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- James C. Engert
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* E-mail: 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
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* E-mail: 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.