Alpha globin gene copy number and hypertension risk among Black Americans

• A. Parker Ruhl ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: parker.ruhl@nih.gov (APR); Hans.ackerman@nih.gov (HCA)

  Affiliations Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1583-4783

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• Neal Jeffries,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office of Biostatistics Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Yu Yang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Blood Diseases and Resources, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Orlando M. Gutierrez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Paul Muntner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Rakhi P. Naik,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Lydia H. Pecker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Bryan T. Mott,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Neil A. Zakai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

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• Monika M. Safford,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Leslie A. Lange,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

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• Cheryl A. Winkler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Basic Research Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

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• Marguerite R. Irvin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Mary Cushman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

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• Hans C. Ackerman

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: parker.ruhl@nih.gov (APR); Hans.ackerman@nih.gov (HCA)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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