About the Authors

Viktor Hamrefors

Viktor.Hamrefors@med.lu.se

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine Unit, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Bo Hedblad

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

George Hindy

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

J. Gustav Smith

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Cardiology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter Almgren

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Gunnar Engström

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Marketa Sjögren

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Klas Gränsbo

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Department of Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Marju Orho-Melander

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Olle Melander

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Department of Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VH BH GH GE MOM OM. Performed the experiments: VH GH PA MS KG. Analyzed the data: VH BH GH JGS PA GE MS KG MOM OM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JGS MS. Wrote the paper: VH BH JGS GE MOM OM. Reviewed and contributed to the final version of the manuscript: VH BH GH JGS PA GE MS KG MOM OM. Contributed to the MDC study cohort database: BH JGS GE.