About the Authors

Ulrike Esslinger

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM UMR-S1166, Team Genomics & Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, Paris, France, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France

Sophie Garnier

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM UMR-S1166, Team Genomics & Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, Paris, France, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France

Agathe Korniat

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM UMR-S1166, Team Genomics & Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, Paris, France, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France

Carole Proust

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM UMR-S1166, Team Genomics & Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, Paris, France, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France

Georgios Kararigas

Affiliation Institute of Gender in Medicine and Center for Cardiovascular Research, Charite University Hospital, and DZHK, Berlin, Germany

Martina Müller-Nurasyid

Affiliations Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany, DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partnersite Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany

Jean-Philippe Empana

Affiliations INSERM, UMR-S970, Department of Epidemiology, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France

Michael P. Morley

Affiliation Penn Cardiovascular Institute and Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Claire Perret

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM UMR-S1166, Team Genomics & Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, Paris, France, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France

Klaus Stark

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Alexander G. Bick

Affiliation Department of Medecine and Genetics Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Sanjay K. Prasad

Affiliation Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Jennifer Kriebel

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany

Jin Li

Affiliation Center for Applied Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Laurence Tiret

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM UMR-S1166, Team Genomics & Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, Paris, France, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France

Konstantin Strauch

Affiliations Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Declan P. O'Regan

Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Kenneth B. Marguiles

Affiliation Penn Cardiovascular Institute and Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Jonathan G. Seidman

Affiliations Department of Medecine and Genetics Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, United States of America

Pierre Boutouyrie

Affiliations INSERM, UMR-S970, Department of Epidemiology, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France, AP-HP, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Pharmacology Department, Paris, France

Patrick Lacolley

Affiliation INSERM U1116, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

Xavier Jouven

Affiliations INSERM, UMR-S970, Department of Epidemiology, Paris, France, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France, AP-HP, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Cardiology Department, Paris, France

Christian Hengstenberg

Affiliations DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partnersite Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Michel Komajda

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM UMR-S1166, Team Genomics & Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, Paris, France, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Cardiology Department, Paris, France, AP-HP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre de Référence des Maladies Cardiaques Héréditaires, Paris, France

Hakon Hakonarson

Affiliation Center for Applied Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Richard Isnard

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM UMR-S1166, Team Genomics & Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, Paris, France, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Cardiology Department, Paris, France, AP-HP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre de Référence des Maladies Cardiaques Héréditaires, Paris, France

Eloisa Arbustini

Affiliation IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Harald Grallert

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany

Stuart A. Cook

Affiliations National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Duke-NUS, Singapore

Christine E. Seidman

Affiliations Department of Medecine and Genetics Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, United States of America

Vera Regitz-Zagrosek

Affiliation Institute of Gender in Medicine and Center for Cardiovascular Research, Charite University Hospital, and DZHK, Berlin, Germany

Thomas P. Cappola

Affiliation Penn Cardiovascular Institute and Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Philippe Charron

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM UMR-S1166, Team Genomics & Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, Paris, France, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Cardiology Department, Paris, France, AP-HP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Centre de Référence des Maladies Cardiaques Héréditaires, Paris, France, Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin, AP-HP, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

François Cambien

eric.villard@upmc.fr (EV); francois.cambien@upmc.fr (FC)

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM UMR-S1166, Team Genomics & Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, Paris, France, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France

Eric Villard

eric.villard@upmc.fr (EV); francois.cambien@upmc.fr (FC)

Affiliations Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM UMR-S1166, Team Genomics & Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, Paris, France, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Cardiology Department, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FC UE PC EV. Formal analysis: AB FC SG JL MMN JS. Funding acquisition: EA FC PC SC GK PL VRZ CS EV. Investigation: PB TC PC SC JPE UE SG HH HG CH RI XJ GK MK AK JK KM MM MMN DO C Proust SP C Perret JS K Stark K Strauch. Resources: EA PB TC PC SC HH CH RI XJ MK PL KM. Supervision: EA FC PC SC CH GK PL VRZ JS CS EV. Writing – original draft: FC UE AK LT EV. Writing – review & editing: EA AB TC PC JPE SG HG CH XJ GK MK JK PL KM MMN VRZ CS K Strauch.