About the Authors

Marina Evangelou

marina.evangelou@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk

Affiliation Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Augusto Rendon

Affiliations Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Willem H. Ouwehand

Affiliations Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Lorenz Wernisch

Affiliation Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Frank Dudbridge

Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ME LW FD. Performed the experiments: ME. Analyzed the data: ME. Wrote the paper: ME LW FD. Provided platelets GWAS data: AR WHO. Read the manuscript and provided comments: AR.