About the Authors
- Vesna Boraska
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* E-mail: vb2@sanger.ac.uk (VB); ez1@sanger.ac.uk (EZ)
Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Morgan Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Medical Biology, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
- Aaron Day-Williams
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Morgan Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Christopher S. Franklin
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Morgan Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Katherine S. Elliott
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Kalliope Panoutsopoulou
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Morgan Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Ioanna Tachmazidou
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Morgan Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Eva Albrecht
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Affiliation Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Stefania Bandinelli
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Affiliation Geriatric Unit, Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze, Florence, Italy
- Lawrence J. Beilin
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Affiliation School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- Murielle Bochud
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Gemma Cadby
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Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics Platform, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada
- Florian Ernst
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Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- David M. Evans
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Affiliation MRC CAiTE Centre, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Caroline Hayward
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Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Andrew A. Hicks
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Affiliation Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Jennifer Huffman
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Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Cornelia Huth
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Alan L. James
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Affiliations School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Busselton Population Medical Research Foundation, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Pulmonary Physiology/West Australian Sleep Disorders Research Institute, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
- Norman Klopp
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Affiliation Unit for Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Ivana Kolcic
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Affiliation Croatian Centre for Global Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
- Zoltán Kutalik
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Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Debbie A. Lawlor
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Affiliation MRC CAiTE Centre, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Arthur W. Musk
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Affiliations Busselton Population Medical Research Foundation, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Schools of Population Health and Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Marina Pehlic
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Affiliation Department of Medical Biology, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
- Craig E. Pennell
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Affiliation School of Women's and Infants' Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- John R. B. Perry
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Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Genetics of Complex Traits, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
- Annette Peters
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Ozren Polasek
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Affiliation Croatian Centre for Global Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
- Beate St Pourcain
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Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Susan M. Ring
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Affiliation MRC CAiTE Centre, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Erika Salvi
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, University of Milano, Milano, Italy, Genomics and Bioinformatics Platform, Fondazione Filarete, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
- Sabine Schipf
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Affiliation Institute for Community Medicine/SHIP-Clinical Epidemiological Research, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Jan A. Staessen
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Affiliations Studies Coordinating Centre, Division of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Alexander Teumer
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Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Nicholas Timpson
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Affiliation MRC CAiTE Centre, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Veronique Vitart
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Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Nicole M. Warrington
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Affiliation School of Women's and Infants' Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Hanieh Yaghootkar
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Affiliation Genetics of Complex Traits, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
- Tatijana Zemunik
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Affiliation Department of Medical Biology, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
- Lina Zgaga
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Affiliations Centre for Population Health Sciences and Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
- Ping An
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Affiliation Division of Statistical Genomics and Department of Genetics Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Verneri Anttila
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Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Morgan Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Ingrid B. Borecki
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Affiliation Division of Statistical Genomics and Department of Genetics Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Jostein Holmen
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Affiliation HUNT Research Centre, Department of Public Health and General Practice, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Levanger, Norway
- Ioanna Ntalla
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Affiliation Harokopio University of Athens, Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, Athens, Greece
- Aarno Palotie
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Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Morgan Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Medical Genetics, University and University Central Hospital of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kirsi H. Pietiläinen
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Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Obesity Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Public Health, Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Juho Wedenoja
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Affiliation Department of Public Health, Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Bendik S. Winsvold
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Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Morgan Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- George V. Dedoussis
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Affiliation Harokopio University of Athens, Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, Athens, Greece
- Jaakko Kaprio
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Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Public Health, Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Dept of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Helsinki, Finland
- Michael A. Province
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Affiliation Division of Statistical Genomics and Department of Genetics Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- John-Anker Zwart
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Michel Burnier
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Affiliation Service of Nephrology, University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Harry Campbell
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Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences and Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Daniele Cusi
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Affiliations Genomics and Bioinformatics Platform, Fondazione Filarete, University of Milano, Milano, Italy, Division of Nephrology, San Paolo Hospital, Milano, Italy
- George Davey Smith
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Affiliation MRC CAiTE Centre, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Timothy M. Frayling
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Affiliation Genetics of Complex Traits, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
- Christian Gieger
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Affiliation Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Lyle J. Palmer
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Affiliations Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics Platform, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada, Prosserman Centre for Health Research, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
- Peter P. Pramstaller
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Affiliations Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, Department of Neurology, General Central Hospital, Bolzano, Italy, Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Igor Rudan
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Affiliations Croatian Centre for Global Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia, Centre for Population Health Sciences and Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Henry Völzke
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Affiliation Institute for Community Medicine/SHIP-Clinical Epidemiological Research, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- H. -Erich Wichmann
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Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany
- Alan F. Wright
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Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Eleftheria Zeggini
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* E-mail: vb2@sanger.ac.uk (VB); ez1@sanger.ac.uk (EZ)
Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Morgan Building, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The following commercial companies helped support this study: GlaxoSmithKline, Siemens Healthcare, Siemens AG, Novo Nordisk, Gyllenberg and Biomedicum Helsinki. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EZ. Performed the experiments: VB. Analyzed the data: VB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADW CSF KSE KP IT EA SB LJB MB GC FE DME CH AAH JH CH ALJ NK IK ZK DAL AWM MP CEP JRBP AP OP BSP SMR ES SS JAS AT NT VV NMW HY TZ LZ PA VA IBB JH IN AP KHP JW BSW GVD JK MAP JAZ MB HC DC GDS TMF CG LJP PPP IR HV HEW AFW. Wrote the paper: VB EZ.