About the Authors

Jörg Hager

Affiliation CEA-Genomics Institute, Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, France

Yoichiro Kamatani

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoichiro Kamatani, Jean-Baptiste Cazier

Affiliation Centre d’Etude du Polymorphisme Humain, Paris, France

Jean-Baptiste Cazier

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoichiro Kamatani, Jean-Baptiste Cazier

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sonia Youhanna

Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Michella Ghassibe-Sabbagh

Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Daniel E. Platt

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery, IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre, New York, New York, United States of America

Antoine B. Abchee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Jihane Romanos

Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Georges Khazen

Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Raed Othman

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

Danielle A. Badro

Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Marc Haber

Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Angelique K. Salloum

Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Bouchra Douaihy

Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Nabil Shasha

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

Samer Kabbani

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

Hana Sbeite

Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Elie Chammas

Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Hamid el Bayeh

Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Francis Rousseau

Affiliation IntegraGen SA, Genopole Campus 1 - Genavenir 8, Evry, France

Diana Zelenika

Affiliation CEA-Genomics Institute, Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, France

Ivo Gut

Affiliation CEA-Genomics Institute, Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, France

Mark Lathrop

Affiliation CEA-Genomics Institute, Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, France

Martin Farrall

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom

Dominique Gauguier

Affiliations The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom, INSERM, UMRS872, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris, France

Pierre A. Zalloua

pzalloua@lau.edu.lb

Affiliations Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

the FGENTCARD Consortium

Members of the FGENTCARD Consortium are listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

DEP is an employee of Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery, IBM, FR is an employee of IntegraGenSA, Ulla Grove Sidelmann is an employee of Novo Nordisk and Frank Bonner is an employee of Metabometrix Ltd. 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, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH DG MF DEP JBC FR DZ IG ML ABA PAZ. Performed the experiments: SY AKS. Analyzed the data: DEP JH YK MGS JR GK PAZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DAB MH AKS BD RO NS SK HS EC HEB. Wrote the paper: MGS SY DEP PAZ.