Genetic risk scores for coronary artery disease and its traditional risk factors: Their role in the progression of coronary artery calcification—Results of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall study

• Sonali Pechlivanis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sonali.pechlivanis@uk-essen.de

  Current address: Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Centre for Biomedical Education and Research, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6181-7044

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• Susanne Moebus,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Centre for Urban Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Nils Lehmann,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Raimund Erbel,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Amir A. Mahabadi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, West German Heart and Vascular Center, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Per Hoffmann,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Karl-Heinz Jöckel,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Markus M. Nöthen,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Hagen S. Bachmann,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Centre for Biomedical Education and Research, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

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• on behalf of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Investigative Group

  ¶The dedicated personnel of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study are acknowledged in the Acknowledgments.

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