About the Authors
- Jörg Hager
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Affiliation CEA-Genomics Institute, Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, France
- Yoichiro Kamatani
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yoichiro Kamatani, Jean-Baptiste Cazier
Affiliation Centre d’Etude du Polymorphisme Humain, Paris, France
- Jean-Baptiste Cazier
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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
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Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon
- Michella Ghassibe-Sabbagh
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Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon
- Daniel E. Platt
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Affiliation Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery, IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre, New York, New York, United States of America
- Antoine B. Abchee
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
- Jihane Romanos
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Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon
- Georges Khazen
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Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon
- Raed Othman
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
- Danielle A. Badro
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Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon
- Marc Haber
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Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon
- Angelique K. Salloum
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Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon
- Bouchra Douaihy
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Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon
- Nabil Shasha
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
- Samer Kabbani
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
- Hana Sbeite
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Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon
- Elie Chammas
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Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon
- Hamid el Bayeh
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Affiliation Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon
- Francis Rousseau
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Affiliation IntegraGen SA, Genopole Campus 1 - Genavenir 8, Evry, France
- Diana Zelenika
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Affiliation CEA-Genomics Institute, Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, France
- Ivo Gut
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Affiliation CEA-Genomics Institute, Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, France
- Mark Lathrop
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Affiliation CEA-Genomics Institute, Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, France
- Martin Farrall
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Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Dominique Gauguier
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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
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* E-mail: 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
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¶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.