About the Authors
- Marguerite R. Irvin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Marguerite R. Irvin, Nathan E. Wineinger, Treva K. Rice
* E-mail: irvinr@uab.edu
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Nathan E. Wineinger
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Contributed equally to this work with: Marguerite R. Irvin, Nathan E. Wineinger, Treva K. Rice
Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Treva K. Rice
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Contributed equally to this work with: Marguerite R. Irvin, Nathan E. Wineinger, Treva K. Rice
Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Nicholas M. Pajewski
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Edmond K. Kabagambe
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Charles C. Gu
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Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Jim Pankow
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Kari E. North
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jemma B. Wilk
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Barry I. Freedman
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine/Nephrology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Nora Franceschini
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Uli Broeckel
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Hemant K. Tiwari
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Donna K. Arnett
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MRI DKA HKT TKR. Performed the experiments: UB JP. Analyzed the data: MRI NEW NMP CCG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TKR EKK KEN JBW BIF NF. Wrote the paper: MRI NEW TKR.