About the Authors

Adriana Huertas-Vazquez

AHV and CPN are joint junior authors on this work.

Affiliation The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Christopher P. Nelson

AHV and CPN are joint junior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit in Cardiovascular Disease, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

Xiuqing Guo

Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kyndaron Reinier

Affiliation The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Audrey Uy-Evanado

Affiliation The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Carmen Teodorescu

Affiliation The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jo Ayala

Affiliation The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Katherine Jerger

Affiliation The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Harpriya Chugh

Affiliation The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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Peter S. Braund

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Panos Deloukas

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Alistair S. Hall

Affiliation Department of Clinical Cardiology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Anthony J. Balmforth

Affiliation Department of Clinical Cardiology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Michelle Jones

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kent D. Taylor

Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sara L. Pulit

Affiliation Cardiolovascular Research Center and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christopher Newton-Cheh

Affiliation Cardiolovascular Research Center and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karen Gunson

Affiliation Pathology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Jonathan Jui

Affiliation Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Jerome I. Rotter

Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Christine M. Albert

Affiliation Center for Arrhythmia Prevention, Division of Preventive Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nilesh J. Samani

njs@le.ac.uk (NJS); sumeet.chugh@cshs.org (SSC)

NJS and SSC are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit in Cardiovascular Disease, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

Sumeet S. Chugh

njs@le.ac.uk (NJS); sumeet.chugh@cshs.org (SSC)

NJS and SSC are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AHV CPN NJS SSC. Performed the experiments: AHV CPN JA KJ MJ KDT. Analyzed the data: AHV CPN XG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AHV CPN XG KR AUE CT JA KJ HC PSB PD ASH AJB MJ KDT SLP CNC KG JJ JIR CMA NJS SSC. Wrote the paper: AHV CPN NJS SSC.