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Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2023 Jun;618(7965):E19–E20. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06194-2

Author Correction: The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

Sarah E Graham 1, Shoa L Clarke 2, Kuan-Han H Wu 3, Stavroula Kanoni 4, Greg J M Zajac 5, Shweta Ramdas 6, Ida Surakka 7, Ioanna Ntalla 8, Sailaja Vedantam 9, Thomas W Winkler 10, Adam E Locke 11, Eirini Marouli 12, Mi Yeong Hwang 13, Sohee Han 14, Akira Narita 15, Ananyo Choudhury 16, Amy R Bentley 17, Kenneth Ekoru 18, Anurag Verma 19, Bhavi Trivedi 20, Hilary C Martin 21, Karen A Hunt 22, Qin Hui 23, Derek Klarin 24, Xiang Zhu 25, Gudmar Thorleifsson 26, Anna Helgadottir 27, Daniel F Gudbjartsson 28, Hilma Holm 29, Isleifur Olafsson 30, Masato Akiyama 31, Saori Sakaue 32, Chikashi Terao 33, Masahiro Kanai 34, Wei Zhou 35, Ben M Brumpton 36, Humaira Rasheed 37, Sanni E Ruotsalainen 38, Aki S Havulinna 39, Yogasudha Veturi 40, QiPing Feng 41, Elisabeth A Rosenthal 42, Todd Lingren 43, Jennifer Allen Pacheco 44, Sarah A Pendergrass 45, Jeffrey Haessler 46, Franco Giulianini 47, Yuki Bradford 48, Jason E Miller 49, Archie Campbell 50, Kuang Lin 51, Iona Y Millwood 52, George Hindy 53, Asif Rasheed 54, Jessica D Faul 55, Wei Zhao 56, David R Weir 57, Constance Turman 58, Hongyan Huang 59, Mariaelisa Graff 60, Anubha Mahajan 61, Michael R Brown 62, Weihua Zhang 63, Ketian Yu 64, Ellen M Schmidt 65, Anita Pandit 66, Stefan Gustafsson 67, Xianyong Yin 68, Jian’an Luan 69, Jing-Hua Zhao 70, Fumihiko Matsuda 71, Hye-Mi Jang 72, Kyungheon Yoon 73, Carolina Medina-Gomez 74, Achilleas Pitsillides 75, Jouke Jan Hottenga 76, Gonneke Willemsen 77, Andrew R Wood 78, Yingji Ji 79, Zishan Gao 80, Simon Haworth 81, Ruth E Mitchell 82, Jin Fang Chai 83, Mette Aadahl 84, Jie Yao 85, Ani Manichaikul 86, Helen R Warren 87, Julia Ramirez 88, Jette Bork-Jensen 89, Line L Kårhus 90, Anuj Goel 91, Maria Sabater-Lleal 92, Raymond Noordam 93, Carlo Sidore 94, Edoardo Fiorillo 95, Aaron F McDaid 96, Pedro Marques-Vidal 97, Matthias Wielscher 98, Stella Trompet 99, Naveed Sattar 100, Line T Møllehave 101, Betina H Thuesen 102, Matthias Munz 103, Lingyao Zeng 104, Jianfeng Huang 105, Bin Yang 106, Alaitz Poveda 107, Azra Kurbasic 108, Claudia Lamina 109, Lukas Forer 110, Markus Scholz 111, Tessel E Galesloot 112, Jonathan P Bradfield 113, E Warwick Daw 114, Joseph M Zmuda 115, Jonathan S Mitchell 116, Christian Fuchsberger 117, Henry Christensen 118, Jennifer A Brody 119, Mary F Feitosa 120, Mary K Wojczynski 121, Michael Preuss 122, Massimo Mangino 123, Paraskevi Christofidou 124, Niek Verweij 125, Jan W Benjamins 126, Jorgen Engmann 127, Rachel L Kember 128, Roderick C Slieker 129, Ken Sin Lo 130, Nuno R Zilhao 131, Phuong Le 132, Marcus E Kleber 133, Graciela E Delgado 134, Shaofeng Huo 135, Daisuke D Ikeda 136, Hiroyuki Iha 137, Jian Yang 138, Jun Liu 139, Hampton L Leonard 140, Jonathan Marten 141, Börge Schmidt 142, Marina Arendt 143, Laura J Smyth 144, Marisa Cañadas-Garre 145, Chaolong Wang 146, Masahiro Nakatochi 147, Andrew Wong 148, Nina Hutri-Kähönen 149, Xueling Sim 150, Rui Xia 151, Alicia Huerta-Chagoya 152, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Lopez 153, Valeriya Lyssenko 154, Meraj Ahmed 155, Anne U Jackson 156, Noha A Yousri 157, Marguerite R Irvin 158, Christopher Oldmeadow 159, Han-Na Kim 160, Seungho Ryu 161, Paul R H J Timmers 162, Liubov Arbeeva 163, Rajkumar Dorajoo 164, Leslie A Lange 165, Xiaoran Chai 166, Gauri Prasad 167, Laura Lorés-Motta 168, Marc Pauper 169, Jirong Long 170, Xiaohui Li 171, Elizabeth Theusch 172, Fumihiko Takeuchi 173, Cassandra N Spracklen 174, Anu Loukola 175, Sailalitha Bollepalli 176, Sophie C Warner 177, Ya Xing Wang 178, Wen B Wei 179, Teresa Nutile 180, Daniela Ruggiero 181, Yun Ju Sung 182, Yi-Jen Hung 183, Shufeng Chen 184, Fangchao Liu 185, Jingyun Yang 186, Katherine A Kentistou 187, Mathias Gorski 188, Marco Brumat 189, Karina Meidtner 190, Lawrence F Bielak 191, Jennifer A Smith 192, Prashantha Hebbar 193, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki 194, Edith Hofer 195, Maoxuan Lin 196, Chao Xue 197, Jifeng Zhang 198, Maria Pina Concas 199, Simona Vaccargiu 200, Peter J van der Most 201, Niina Pitkänen 202, Brian E Cade 203, Jiwon Lee 204, Sander W van der Laan 205, Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala 206, Stefan Weiss 207, Martina E Zimmermann 208, Jong Young Lee 209, Hyeok Sun Choi 210, Maria Nethander 211, Sandra Freitag-Wolf 212, Lorraine Southam 213, Nigel W Rayner 214, Carol A Wang 215, Shih-Yi Lin 216, Jun-Sing Wang 217, Christian Couture 218, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen 219, Kjell Nikus 220, Gabriel Cuellar-Partida 221, Henrik Vestergaard 222, Bertha Hildalgo 223, Olga Giannakopoulou 224, Qiuyin Cai 225, Morgan O Obura 226, Jessica van Setten 227, Xiaoyin Li 228, Karen Schwander 229, Natalie Terzikhan 230, Jae Hun Shin 231, Rebecca D Jackson 232, Alexander P Reiner 233, Lisa Warsinger Martin 234, Zhengming Chen 235, Liming Li 236, Heather M Highland 237, Kristin L Young 238, Takahisa Kawaguchi 239, Joachim Thiery 240, Joshua C Bis 241, Girish N Nadkarni 242, Lenore J Launer 243, Huaixing Li 244, Mike A Nalls 245, Olli T Raitakari 246, Sahoko Ichihara 247, Sarah H Wild 248, Christopher P Nelson 249, Harry Campbell 250, Susanne Jäger 251, Toru Nabika 252, Fahd Al-Mulla 253, Harri Niinikoski 254, Peter S Braund 255, Ivana Kolcic 256, Peter Kovacs 257, Tota Giardoglou 258, Tomohiro Katsuya 259, Konain Fatima Bhatti 260, Dominique de Kleijn 261, Gert J de Borst 262, Eung Kweon Kim 263, Hieab H H Adams 264, M Arfan Ikram 265, Xiaofeng Zhu 266, Folkert W Asselbergs 267, Adriaan O Kraaijeveld 268, Joline W J Beulens 269, Xiao-Ou Shu 270, Loukianos S Rallidis 271, Oluf Pedersen 272, Torben Hansen 273, Paul Mitchell 274, Alex W Hewitt 275, Mika Kähönen 276, Louis Pérusse 277, Claude Bouchard 278, Anke Tönjes 279, Yii-Der Ida Chen 280, Craig E Pennell 281, Trevor A Mori 282, Wolfgang Lieb 283, Andre Franke 284, Claes Ohlsson 285, Dan Mellström 286, Yoon Shin Cho 287, Hyejin Lee 288, Jian-Min Yuan 289, Woon-Puay Koh 290, Sang Youl Rhee 291, Jeong-Taek Woo 292, Iris M Heid 293, Klaus J Stark 294, Henry Völzke 295, Georg Homuth 296, Michele K Evans 297, Alan B Zonderman 298, Ozren Polasek 299, Gerard Pasterkamp 300, Imo E Hoefer 301, Susan Redline 302, Katja Pahkala 303, Albertine J Oldehinkel 304, Harold Snieder 305, Ginevra Biino 306, Reinhold Schmidt 307, Helena Schmidt 308, Y Eugene Chen 309, Stefania Bandinelli 310, George Dedoussis 311, Thangavel Alphonse Thanaraj 312, Sharon L R Kardia 313, Norihiro Kato 314, Matthias B Schulze 315, Giorgia Girotto 316, Bettina Jung 317, Carsten A Böger 318, Peter K Joshi 319, David A Bennett 320, Philip L De Jager 321, Xiangfeng Lu 322, Vasiliki Mamakou 323, Morris Brown 324, Mark J Caulfield 325, Patricia B Munroe 326, Xiuqing Guo 327, Marina Ciullo 328, Jost B Jonas 329, Nilesh J Samani 330, Jaakko Kaprio 331, Päivi Pajukanta 332, Linda S Adair 333, Sonny Augustin Bechayda 334, H Janaka de Silva 335, Ananda R Wickremasinghe 336, Ronald M Krauss 337, Jer-Yuarn Wu 338, Wei Zheng 339, Anneke I den Hollander 340, Dwaipayan Bharadwaj 341, Adolfo Correa 342, James G Wilson 343, Lars Lind 344, Chew-Kiat Heng 345, Amanda E Nelson 346, Yvonne M Golightly 347, James F Wilson 348, Brenda Penninx 349, Hyung-Lae Kim 350, John Attia 351, Rodney J Scott 352, D C Rao 353, Donna K Arnett 354, Steven C Hunt 355, Mark Walker 356, Heikki A Koistinen 357, Giriraj R Chandak 358, Chittaranjan S Yajnik 359, Josep M Mercader 360, Teresa Tusié-Luna 361, Carlos A Aguilar-Salinas 362, Clicerio Gonzalez Villalpando 363, Lorena Orozco 364, Myriam Fornage 365, E Shyong Tai 366, Rob M van Dam 367, Terho Lehtimäki 368, Nish Chaturvedi 369, Mitsuhiro Yokota 370, Jianjun Liu 371, Dermot F Reilly 372, Amy Jayne McKnight 373, Frank Kee 374, Karl-Heinz Jöckel 375, Mark I McCarthy 376, Colin N A Palmer 377, Veronique Vitart 378, Caroline Hayward 379, Eleanor Simonsick 380, Cornelia M van Duijn 381, Fan Lu 382, Jia Qu 383, Haretsugu Hishigaki 384, Xu Lin 385, Winfried März 386, Esteban J Parra 387, Miguel Cruz 388, Vilmundur Gudnason 389, Jean-Claude Tardif 390, Guillaume Lettre 391, Leen M ’t Hart 392, Petra J M Elders 393, Scott M Damrauer 394, Meena Kumari 395, Mika Kivimaki 396, Pim van der Harst 397, Tim D Spector 398, Ruth J F Loos 399, Michael A Province 400, Bruce M Psaty 401, Ivan Brandslund 402, Peter P Pramstaller 403, Kaare Christensen 404, Samuli Ripatti 405, Elisabeth Widén 406, Hakon Hakonarson 407, Struan F A Grant 408, Lambertus A L M Kiemeney 409, Jacqueline de Graaf 410, Markus Loeffler 411, Florian Kronenberg 412, Dongfeng Gu 413, Jeanette Erdmann 414, Heribert Schunkert 415, Paul W Franks 416, Allan Linneberg 417, J Wouter Jukema 418, Amit V Khera 419, Minna Männikkö 420, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin 421, Zoltan Kutalik 422, Francesco Cucca 423, Dennis O Mook-Kanamori 424, Ko Willems van Dijk 425, Hugh Watkins 426, David P Strachan 427, Niels Grarup 428, Peter Sever 429, Neil Poulter 430, Jerome I Rotter 431, Thomas M Dantoft 432, Fredrik Karpe 433, Matt J Neville 434, Nicholas J Timpson 435, Ching-Yu Cheng 436, Tien-Yin Wong 437, Chiea Chuen Khor 438, Charumathi Sabanayagam 439, Annette Peters 440, Christian Gieger 441, Andrew T Hattersley 442, Nancy L Pedersen 443, Patrik K E Magnusson 444, Dorret I Boomsma 445, Eco J C de Geus 446, L Adrienne Cupples 447, Joyce B J van Meurs 448, Mohsen Ghanbari 449, Penny Gordon-Larsen 450, Wei Huang 451, Young Jin Kim 452, Yasuharu Tabara 453, Nicholas J Wareham 454, Claudia Langenberg 455, Eleftheria Zeggini 456, Johanna Kuusisto 457, Markku Laakso 458, Erik Ingelsson 459, Goncalo Abecasis 460, John C Chambers 461, Jaspal S Kooner 462, Paul S de Vries 463, Alanna C Morrison 464, Kari E North 465, Martha Daviglus 466, Peter Kraft 467, Nicholas G Martin 468, John B Whitfield 469, Shahid Abbas 470, Danish Saleheen 471, Robin G Walters 472, Michael V Holmes 473, Corri Black 474, Blair H Smith 475, Anne E Justice 476, Aris Baras 477, Julie E Buring 478, Paul M Ridker 479, Daniel I Chasman 480, Charles Kooperberg 481, Wei-Qi Wei 482, Gail P Jarvik 483, Bahram Namjou 484, M Geoffrey Hayes 485, Marylyn D Ritchie 486, Pekka Jousilahti 487, Veikko Salomaa 488, Kristian Hveem 489, Bjørn Olav Åsvold 490, Michiaki Kubo 491, Yoichiro Kamatani 492, Yukinori Okada 493, Yoshinori Murakami 494, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir 495, Kari Stefansson 496, Yuk-Lam Ho 497, Julie A Lynch 498, Daniel J Rader 499, Philip S Tsao 500, Kyong-Mi Chang 501, Kelly Cho 502, Christopher J O’Donnell 503, John M Gaziano 504, Peter Wilson 505, Charles N Rotimi 506, Scott Hazelhurst 507, Michèle Ramsay 508, Richard C Trembath 509, David A van Heel 510, Gen Tamiya 511, Masayuki Yamamoto 512, Bong-Jo Kim 513, Karen L Mohlke 514, Timothy M Frayling 515, Joel N Hirschhorn 516, Sekar Kathiresan 517; VA Million Veteran Program; Global Lipids Genetics Consortium, Michael Boehnke 518, Pradeep Natarajan 519, Gina M Peloso 520, Christopher D Brown 521, Andrew P Morris 522, Themistocles L Assimes 523, Panos Deloukas 524, Yan V Sun 525, Cristen J Willer 526
PMCID: PMC10355188  NIHMSID: NIHMS1912537  PMID: 37237109

In the version of this article initially published, Noha A. Yousri (Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar and Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt) and Steven C. Hunt (Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA and Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar) were not included in the author list. In addition, Hieab H. H. Adams (Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) was shown with an incorrect second affiliation in the HTML and PDF versions of the article. Finally, in the HTML version, Cristen J. Willer was mistakenly listed with an extra affiliation (Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia). The authors and affiliations have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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Mitchell, Christian Fuchsberger, Henry Christensen, Jennifer A. Brody, Mary F. Feitosa, Mary K. Wojczynski, Michael Preuss, Massimo Mangino, Paraskevi Christofidou, Niek Verweij, Jan W. Benjamins, Jorgen Engmann, Rachel L. Kember, Roderick C. Slieker, Ken Sin Lo, Nuno R. Zilhao, Phuong Le, Marcus E. Kleber, Graciela E. Delgado, Shaofeng Huo, Daisuke D. Ikeda, Hiroyuki Iha, Jian Yang, Jun Liu, Hampton L. Leonard, Jonathan Marten, Börge Schmidt, Marina Arendt, Laura J. Smyth, Marisa Cañadas-Garre, Chaolong Wang, Masahiro Nakatochi, Andrew Wong, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Xueling Sim, Rui Xia, Alicia Huerta-Chagoya, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Lopez, Valeriya Lyssenko, Meraj Ahmed, Anne U. Jackson, Marguerite R. Irvin, Christopher Oldmeadow, Han-Na Kim, Seungho Ryu, Paul R. H. J. Timmers, Liubov Arbeeva, Rajkumar Dorajoo, Leslie A. Lange, Xiaoran Chai, Gauri Prasad, Laura Lorés-Motta, Marc Pauper, Jirong Long, Xiaohui Li, Elizabeth Theusch, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Cassandra N. Spracklen, Anu Loukola, Sailalitha Bollepalli, Sophie C. Warner, Ya Xing Wang, Wen B. Wei, Teresa Nutile, Daniela Ruggiero, Yun Ju Sung, Yi-Jen Hung, Shufeng Chen, Fangchao Liu, Jingyun Yang, Katherine A. Kentistou, Mathias Gorski, Marco Brumat, Karina Meidtner, Lawrence F. Bielak, Jennifer A. Smith, Prashantha Hebbar, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Edith Hofer, Maoxuan Lin, Chao Xue, Jifeng Zhang, Maria Pina Concas, Simona Vaccargiu, Peter J. van der Most, Niina Pitkänen, Brian E. Cade, Jiwon Lee, Sander W. van der Laan, Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala, Stefan Weiss, Martina E. Zimmermann, Jong Young Lee, Hyeok Sun Choi, Maria Nethander, Sandra Freitag-Wolf, Lorraine Southam, Nigel W. Rayner, Carol A. Wang, Shih-Yi Lin, Jun-Sing Wang, Christian Couture, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Kjell Nikus, Gabriel Cuellar-Partida, Henrik Vestergaard, Bertha Hildalgo, Olga Giannakopoulou, Qiuyin Cai, Morgan O. Obura, Jessica van Setten, Xiaoyin Li, Karen Schwander, Natalie Terzikhan, Jae Hun Shin, Rebecca D. Jackson, Alexander P. Reiner, Lisa Warsinger Martin, Zhengming Chen, Liming Li, Heather M. Highland, Kristin L. Young, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Joachim Thiery, Joshua C. Bis, Girish N. Nadkarni, Lenore J. Launer, Huaixing Li, Mike A. Nalls, Olli T. Raitakari, Sahoko Ichihara, Sarah H. Wild, Christopher P. Nelson, Harry Campbell, Susanne Jäger, Toru Nabika, Fahd Al-Mulla, Harri Niinikoski, Peter S. Braund, Ivana Kolcic, Peter Kovacs, Tota Giardoglou, Tomohiro Katsuya, Konain Fatima Bhatti, Dominique de Kleijn, Gert J. de Borst, Eung Kweon Kim, Hieab H. H. Adams, M. Arfan Ikram, Xiaofeng Zhu, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Adriaan O. Kraaijeveld, Joline W. J. Beulens, Xiao-Ou Shu, Loukianos S. Rallidis, Oluf Pedersen, Torben Hansen, Paul Mitchell, Alex W. Hewitt, Mika Kähönen, Louis Pérusse, Claude Bouchard, Anke Tönjes, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Craig E. Pennell, Trevor A. Mori, Wolfgang Lieb, Andre Franke, Claes Ohlsson, Dan Mellström, Yoon Shin Cho, Hyejin Lee, Jian-Min Yuan, Woon-Puay Koh, Sang Youl Rhee, Jeong-Taek Woo, Iris M. Heid, Klaus J. Stark, Henry Völzke, Georg Homuth, Michele K. Evans, Alan B. Zonderman, Ozren Polasek, Gerard Pasterkamp, Imo E. Hoefer, Susan Redline, Katja Pahkala, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Harold Snieder, Ginevra Biino, Reinhold Schmidt, Helena Schmidt, Y. Eugene Chen, Stefania Bandinelli, George Dedoussis, Thangavel Alphonse Thanaraj, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Norihiro Kato, Matthias B. Schulze, Giorgia Girotto, Bettina Jung, Carsten A. Böger, Peter K. Joshi, David A. Bennett, Philip L. De Jager, Xiangfeng Lu, Vasiliki Mamakou, Morris Brown, Mark J. Caulfield, Patricia B. Munroe, Xiuqing Guo, Marina Ciullo, Jost B. Jonas, Nilesh J. Samani, Jaakko Kaprio, Päivi Pajukanta, Linda S. Adair, Sonny Augustin Bechayda, H. Janaka de Silva, Ananda R. Wickremasinghe, Ronald M. 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Damrauer, Meena Kumari, Mika Kivimaki, Pim van der Harst, Tim D. Spector, Ruth J. F. Loos, Michael A. Province, Bruce M. Psaty, Ivan Brandslund, Peter P. Pramstaller, Kaare Christensen, Samuli Ripatti, Elisabeth Widén, Hakon Hakonarson, Struan F. A. Grant, Lambertus A. L. M. Kiemeney, Jacqueline de Graaf, Markus Loeffler, Florian Kronenberg, Dongfeng Gu, Jeanette Erdmann, Heribert Schunkert, Paul W. Franks, Allan Linneberg, J. Wouter Jukema, Amit V. Khera, Minna Männikkö, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Zoltan Kutalik, Francesco Cucca, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Ko Willems van Dijk, Hugh Watkins, David P. Strachan, Niels Grarup, Peter Sever, Neil Poulter, Jerome I. Rotter, Thomas M. Dantoft, Fredrik Karpe, Matt J. Neville, Nicholas J. Timpson, Ching-Yu Cheng, Tien-Yin Wong, Chiea Chuen Khor, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Annette Peters, Christian Gieger, Andrew T. Hattersley, Nancy L. Pedersen, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Dorret I. Boomsma, Eco J. C. de Geus, L. Adrienne Cupples, Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Mohsen Ghanbari, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Wei Huang, Young Jin Kim, Yasuharu Tabara, Nicholas J. Wareham, Claudia Langenberg, Eleftheria Zeggini, Johanna Kuusisto, Markku Laakso, Erik Ingelsson, Goncalo Abecasis, John C. Chambers, Jaspal S. Kooner, Paul S. de Vries, Alanna C. Morrison, Kari E. North, Martha Daviglus, Peter Kraft, Nicholas G. Martin, John B. Whitfield, Shahid Abbas, Danish Saleheen, Robin G. Walters, Michael V. Holmes, Corri Black, Blair H. Smith, Anne E. Justice, Aris Baras, Julie E. Buring, Paul M. Ridker, Daniel I. Chasman, Charles Kooperberg, Wei-Qi Wei, Gail P. Jarvik, Bahram Namjou, M. Geoffrey Hayes, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Pekka Jousilahti, Veikko Salomaa, Kristian Hveem, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Michiaki Kubo, Yoichiro Kamatani, Yukinori Okada, Yoshinori Murakami, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Kari Stefansson, Yuk-Lam Ho, Julie A. Lynch, Daniel J. Rader, Philip S. Tsao, Kyong-Mi Chang, Kelly Cho, Christopher J. O’Donnell, John M. Gaziano, Peter Wilson, Charles N. Rotimi, Scott Hazelhurst, Michèle Ramsay, Richard C. Trembath, David A. van Heel, Gen Tamiya, Masayuki Yamamoto, Bong-Jo Kim, Karen L. Mohlke, Timothy M. Frayling, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Sekar Kathiresan, Michael Boehnke, Pradeep Natarajan, Gina M. Peloso, Christopher D. Brown, Andrew P. Morris, Themistocles L. Assimes, Panos Deloukas, Yan V. Sun & Cristen J. Willer

Contributor Information

Sarah E. Graham, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Shoa L. Clarke, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Kuan-Han H. Wu, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Stavroula Kanoni, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Greg J. M. Zajac, Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistics Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Shweta Ramdas, Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Ida Surakka, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Ioanna Ntalla, Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Sailaja Vedantam, Endocrinology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Thomas W. Winkler, Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Adam E. Locke, McDonnell Genome Institute and Department of Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA

Eirini Marouli, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Mi Yeong Hwang, Department of Precision Medicine, Division of Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, South Korea.

Sohee Han, Department of Precision Medicine, Division of Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, South Korea.

Akira Narita, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Ananyo Choudhury, Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Amy R. Bentley, Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Kenneth Ekoru, Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Anurag Verma, Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Bhavi Trivedi, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Hilary C. Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK

Karen A. Hunt, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Qin Hui, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; Atlanta VA Health Care System, Decatur, GA, USA.

Derek Klarin, Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA; Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Xiang Zhu, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA; Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA; Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Gudmar Thorleifsson, deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Anna Helgadottir, deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland; School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Hilma Holm, deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Isleifur Olafsson, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Landspitali–National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Masato Akiyama, Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan; Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

Saori Sakaue, Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan; Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Chikashi Terao, Laboratory for Statistical and Translational Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.

Masahiro Kanai, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA; Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Wei Zhou, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Ben M. Brumpton, K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Department of Thoracic Medicine, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

Humaira Rasheed, K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Sanni E. Ruotsalainen, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Aki S. Havulinna, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Yogasudha Veturi, Department of Genetics, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

QiPing Feng, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

Elisabeth A. Rosenthal, Department of Medicine (Medical Genetics), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Todd Lingren, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Jennifer Allen Pacheco, Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

Sarah A. Pendergrass, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA

Jeffrey Haessler, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Division of Public Health Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA.

Franco Giulianini, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Yuki Bradford, Department of Genetics, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Jason E. Miller, Department of Genetics, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Archie Campbell, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK; Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Kuang Lin, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Iona Y. Millwood, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

George Hindy, Department of Population Medicine, Qatar University College of Medicine, QU Health, Doha, Qatar.

Asif Rasheed, Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan.

Jessica D. Faul, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Wei Zhao, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

David R. Weir, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Constance Turman, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Hongyan Huang, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Mariaelisa Graff, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Anubha Mahajan, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Michael R. Brown, Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA

Weihua Zhang, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK; Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Southall, UK; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.

Ketian Yu, Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Ellen M. Schmidt, Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Anita Pandit, Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Stefan Gustafsson, Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Xianyong Yin, Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Jian’an Luan, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK.

Jing-Hua Zhao, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK.

Fumihiko Matsuda, Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

Hye-Mi Jang, Department of Precision Medicine, Division of Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, South Korea.

Kyungheon Yoon, Department of Precision Medicine, Division of Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, South Korea.

Carolina Medina-Gomez, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Achilleas Pitsillides, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Jouke Jan Hottenga, Department of Biological Psychology, Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Amsterdam Public Health, VU Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Gonneke Willemsen, Department of Biological Psychology, Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Andrew R. Wood, Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Yingji Ji, Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

Zishan Gao, Department of Clinical Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China; Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany; Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.

Simon Haworth, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Bristol Dental School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Ruth E. Mitchell, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Jin Fang Chai, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.

Mette Aadahl, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jie Yao, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovations (Formerly LABioMed) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.

Ani Manichaikul, Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.

Helen R. Warren, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, John Vane Science Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Julia Ramirez, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, John Vane Science Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Jette Bork-Jensen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Line L. Kårhus, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anuj Goel, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Maria Sabater-Lleal, Group of Genomics of Complex Diseases, Research Institute of Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain; Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

Raymond Noordam, Department of Internal Medicine, Section Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Carlo Sidore, Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research, Italian National Council of Research (IRGB CNR), Cagliari,, Italy.

Edoardo Fiorillo, Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research, Italian National Council of Research (IRGB CNR), Lanusei, Italy.

Aaron F. McDaid, University Center for Primary Care and Public Health, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Pedro Marques-Vidal, Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Matthias Wielscher, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC–PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Stella Trompet, Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Naveed Sattar, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Glasgow, UK.

Line T. Møllehave, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Betina H. Thuesen, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Matthias Munz, Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, DZHK (German Research Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner site Hamburg/Lübeck/Kiel, University Heart Center Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Charité–University Medicine Berlin, Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Periodontology and Synoptic Dentistry, Berlin Institute of Health, Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Sciences, Berlin, Germany.

Lingyao Zeng, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Klinik für Herz- und Kreislauferkrankungen, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung (DZHK), Partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany.

Jianfeng Huang, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Department of Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

Bin Yang, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Department of Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

Alaitz Poveda, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmo, Sweden.

Azra Kurbasic, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmo, Sweden.

Claudia Lamina, Department of Genetics and Pharmacology, Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; German Chronic Kidney Disease Study, Innsbruck, Austria.

Lukas Forer, Department of Genetics and Pharmacology, Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; German Chronic Kidney Disease Study, Innsbruck, Austria.

Markus Scholz, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; LIFE Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

Tessel E. Galesloot, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jonathan P. Bradfield, Quantinuum Research, Wayne, PA, USA

E. Warwick Daw, Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.

Joseph M. Zmuda, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Jonathan S. Mitchell, Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano, Italy

Christian Fuchsberger, Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano, Italy.

Henry Christensen, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle, Denmark.

Jennifer A. Brody, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Mary F. Feitosa, Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA

Mary K. Wojczynski, Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA

Michael Preuss, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.

Massimo Mangino, Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust, London, UK.

Paraskevi Christofidou, Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, UK.

Niek Verweij, Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Jan W. Benjamins, Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Jorgen Engmann, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University College London, London, UK; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.

Rachel L. Kember, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Roderick C. Slieker, Amsterdam UMC, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Ken Sin Lo, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Nuno R. Zilhao, Icelandic Heart Association, Reykjavik, Iceland

Phuong Le, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Marcus E. Kleber, Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; Synlab MVZ Humangenetik Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Graciela E. Delgado, Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

Shaofeng Huo, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.

Daisuke D. Ikeda, Biomedical Technology Research Center, Tokushima Research Institute, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Tokushima, Japan

Hiroyuki Iha, Biomedical Technology Research Center, Tokushima Research Institute, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Tokushima, Japan.

Jian Yang, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Institute for Advanced Research, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.

Jun Liu, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Hampton L. Leonard, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA; Data Tecnica International, Glen Echo, MD, USA

Jonathan Marten, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.

Börge Schmidt, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometrie and Epidemiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.

Marina Arendt, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometrie and Epidemiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany; Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.

Laura J. Smyth, Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, UK

Marisa Cañadas-Garre, Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, UK.

Chaolong Wang, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China; Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore.

Masahiro Nakatochi, Public Health Informatics Unit, Department of Integrated Health Sciences, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.

Andrew Wong, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, UK.

Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Department of Pediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.

Xueling Sim, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.

Rui Xia, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.

Alicia Huerta-Chagoya, Departamento de Medicina Genómica y Toxicología Ambiental, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, Mexico.

Juan Carlos Fernandez-Lopez, Departamento de Genómica Computacional, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, Mexico.

Valeriya Lyssenko, Center for Diabetes Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Lund University Diabetes Center, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden.

Meraj Ahmed, Genomic Research on Complex Diseases (GRC Group), CSIR–Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India.

Anne U. Jackson, Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistics Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Noha A. Yousri, Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar; Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Marguerite R. Irvin, Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Christopher Oldmeadow, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Han-Na Kim, Medical Research Institute, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Department of Clinical Research Design and Evaluation, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.

Seungho Ryu, Center for Cohort Studies, Total Healthcare Center, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Paul R. H. J. Timmers, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK; Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Liubov Arbeeva, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Rajkumar Dorajoo, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore.

Leslie A. Lange, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Denver, Aurora, CO, USA

Xiaoran Chai, Ocular Epidemiology, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore; Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.

Gauri Prasad, Genomics and Molecular Medicine Unit, CSIR–Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR–Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology Campus, New Delhi, India.

Laura Lorés-Motta, Departments of Ophthalmology and Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Marc Pauper, Departments of Ophthalmology and Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Jirong Long, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

Xiaohui Li, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovations (Formerly LABioMed) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.

Elizabeth Theusch, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, Oakland, CA,, USA.

Fumihiko Takeuchi, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Cassandra N. Spracklen, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA,, USA

Anu Loukola, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Sailalitha Bollepalli, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Sophie C. Warner, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK

Ya Xing Wang, Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Beijing, China; Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

Wen B. Wei, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Teresa Nutile, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics “Adriano Buzzati-Traverso”–CNR, Naples, Italy.

Daniela Ruggiero, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics “Adriano Buzzati-Traverso”–CNR, Naples, Italy; IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Isernia, Italy.

Yun Ju Sung, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA.

Yi-Jen Hung, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tri-Service General Hospital Songshan Branch, Taipei, Taiwan.

Shufeng Chen, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Department of Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

Fangchao Liu, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Department of Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

Jingyun Yang, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.

Katherine A. Kentistou, Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Mathias Gorski, Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Marco Brumat, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.

Karina Meidtner, Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany.

Lawrence F. Bielak, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Jennifer A. Smith, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Prashantha Hebbar, Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait, Kuwait.

Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece; Department of Population Science and Experimental Medicine, University College London, London, UK.

Edith Hofer, Department of Neurology, Clinical Division of Neurogeriatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria; Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Maoxuan Lin, Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA.

Chao Xue, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Jifeng Zhang, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Maria Pina Concas, Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy.

Simona Vaccargiu, Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research, National Research Council of Italy, UOS of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.

Peter J. van der Most, Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Niina Pitkänen, Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.

Brian E. Cade, Sleep Medicine and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Jiwon Lee, Sleep Medicine and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Sander W. van der Laan, Central Diagnostics Laboratory, Division Laboratories, Pharmacy, and Biomedical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, NIH Biomedical Research Center, NIA, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Stefan Weiss, Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald and University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.

Martina E. Zimmermann, Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Jong Young Lee, Oneomics, Bucheon, Korea.

Hyeok Sun Choi, Department of Biomedical Science, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea.

Maria Nethander, Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Bioinformatics Core Facility, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Sandra Freitag-Wolf, Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.

Lorraine Southam, Institute of Translational Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München–German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.

Nigel W. Rayner, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK; Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Institute of Translational Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München–German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany; Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, Oxford, UK

Carol A. Wang, School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Shih-Yi Lin, Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.

Jun-Sing Wang, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Christian Couture, Department of Kinesiology, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada.

Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center–Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.

Kjell Nikus, Department of Cardiology, Heart Center, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; Department of Cardiology, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center–Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.

Gabriel Cuellar-Partida, University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Henrik Vestergaard, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Medicine, Bornholms Hospital, Ronne, Denmark.

Bertha Hildalgo, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Olga Giannakopoulou, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Qiuyin Cai, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

Morgan O. Obura, Amsterdam UMC, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jessica van Setten, Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Xiaoyin Li, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Karen Schwander, Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.

Natalie Terzikhan, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Jae Hun Shin, Department of Biomedical Science, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea.

Rebecca D. Jackson, Division of Endocrinology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

Alexander P. Reiner, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Lisa Warsinger Martin, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

Zhengming Chen, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Liming Li, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China.

Heather M. Highland, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Kristin L. Young, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Takahisa Kawaguchi, Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

Joachim Thiery, LIFE Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Institute for Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

Joshua C. Bis, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Girish N. Nadkarni, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

Lenore J. Launer, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA

Huaixing Li, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.

Mike A. Nalls, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA; Data Tecnica International, Glen Echo, MD, USA

Olli T. Raitakari, Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Sahoko Ichihara, Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Shimotsuke, Japan.

Sarah H. Wild, Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Christopher P. Nelson, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK

Harry Campbell, Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Susanne Jäger, Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany.

Toru Nabika, Department of Functional Pathology, Shimane University School of Medicine, Izumo, Japan.

Fahd Al-Mulla, Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait, Kuwait.

Harri Niinikoski, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland; Department of Physiology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

Peter S. Braund, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK

Ivana Kolcic, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia.

Peter Kovacs, Medical Department III–Endocrinology, Nephrology, Rheumatology, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany.

Tota Giardoglou, Department of Nutrition–Dietetics, Harokopio University, Eleftheriou Venizelou, Athens, Greece.

Tomohiro Katsuya, Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan; Department of Geriatric and General Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.

Konain Fatima Bhatti, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Dominique de Kleijn, Department of Vascular Surgery, Division of Surgical Specialties, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Gert J. de Borst, Department of Vascular Surgery, Division of Surgical Specialties, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Eung Kweon Kim, Corneal Dystrophy Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Hieab H. H. Adams, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

M. Arfan Ikram, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Xiaofeng Zhu, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Folkert W. Asselbergs, Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Adriaan O. Kraaijeveld, Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Joline W. J. Beulens, Amsterdam UMC, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Xiao-Ou Shu, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

Loukianos S. Rallidis, Second Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece

Oluf Pedersen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Torben Hansen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Paul Mitchell, Center for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and The Westmead Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Alex W. Hewitt, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mika Kähönen, Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; Department of Clinical Physiology, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center–Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.

Louis Pérusse, Department of Kinesiology, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada; Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods (INAF), Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada.

Claude Bouchard, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

Anke Tönjes, Medical Department III–Endocrinology, Nephrology, Rheumatology, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany.

Yii-Der Ida Chen, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovations (Formerly LABioMed) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.

Craig E. Pennell, School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Trevor A. Mori, Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Wolfgang Lieb, Institute of Epidemiology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.

Andre Franke, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.

Claes Ohlsson, Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Drug Treatment, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Dan Mellström, Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Geriatric Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Yoon Shin Cho, Department of Biomedical Science, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea.

Hyejin Lee, Department of Internal Medicine, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Jian-Min Yuan, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Woon-Puay Koh, Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore.

Sang Youl Rhee, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Jeong-Taek Woo, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Iris M. Heid, Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Klaus J. Stark, Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Henry Völzke, Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.

Georg Homuth, Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald and University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.

Michele K. Evans, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, NIH Biomedical Research Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

Alan B. Zonderman, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, NIH Biomedical Research Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

Ozren Polasek, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia.

Gerard Pasterkamp, Central Diagnostics Laboratory, Division Laboratories, Pharmacy, and Biomedical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Imo E. Hoefer, Central Diagnostics Laboratory, Division Laboratories, Pharmacy, and Biomedical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Susan Redline, Sleep Medicine and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Katja Pahkala, Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; Paavo Nurmi Centre, Sports and Exercise Medicine Unit, Department of Physical Activity and Health, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE), University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Harold Snieder, Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Ginevra Biino, Institute of Molecular Genetics, National Research Council of Italy, Pavia, Italy.

Reinhold Schmidt, Department of Neurology, Clinical Division of Neurogeriatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Helena Schmidt, Gottfried Schatz Research Center for Cell Signaling, Metabolism and Aging, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Y. Eugene Chen, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Stefania Bandinelli, Local Health Unit Toscana Centro, Firenze, Italy.

George Dedoussis, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Thangavel Alphonse Thanaraj, Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait, Kuwait.

Sharon L. R. Kardia, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Norihiro Kato, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Matthias B. Schulze, Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany; Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, Nuthetal, Germany

Giorgia Girotto, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy; Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy.

Bettina Jung, Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Carsten A. Böger, Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; Department of Nephrology, Diabetology, Rheumatology, Traunstein Hospital, Traunstein, Germany; KfH Kidney Center Traunstein, Traunstein, Germany

Peter K. Joshi, Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

David A. Bennett, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

Philip L. De Jager, Center for Translational and Systems Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA

Xiangfeng Lu, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Department of Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

Vasiliki Mamakou, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University Athens, Athens, Greece; Dromokaiteio Psychiatric Hospital, Athens, Greece.

Morris Brown, NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Mark J. Caulfield, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, John Vane Science Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Patricia B. Munroe, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, John Vane Science Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Xiuqing Guo, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovations (Formerly LABioMed) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.

Marina Ciullo, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics “Adriano Buzzati-Traverso”–CNR, Naples, Italy; IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Isernia, Italy.

Jost B. Jonas, Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Nilesh J. Samani, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK

Jaakko Kaprio, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Päivi Pajukanta, Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Linda S. Adair, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Sonny Augustin Bechayda, USC–Office of Population Studies Foundation, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines; Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and History, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines.

H. Janaka de Silva, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka.

Ananda R. Wickremasinghe, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Ronald M. Krauss, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Jer-Yuarn Wu, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

Wei Zheng, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

Anneke I. den Hollander, Departments of Ophthalmology and Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Dwaipayan Bharadwaj, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR–Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology Campus, New Delhi, India; Systems Genomics Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Adolfo Correa, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA.

James G. Wilson, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA

Lars Lind, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Chew-Kiat Heng, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; Khoo Teck Puat–National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.

Amanda E. Nelson, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Yvonne M. Golightly, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Division of Physical Therapy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

James F. Wilson, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK; Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Brenda Penninx, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Hyung-Lae Kim, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

John Attia, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia; Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Rodney J. Scott, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia; Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

D. C. Rao, Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA

Donna K. Arnett, University of Kentucky, College of Public Health, Lexington, KY, USA

Steven C. Hunt, Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Mark Walker, Institute of Cellular Medicine (Diabetes), The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Heikki A. Koistinen, Department of Population Health, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; University of Helsinki and Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland

Giriraj R. Chandak, Genomic Research on Complex Diseases (GRC Group), CSIR–Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India

Chittaranjan S. Yajnik, Diabetology Research Centre, KEM Hospital and Research Centre, Pune, India

Josep M. Mercader, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA; Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Teresa Tusié-Luna, Unidad de Biología Molecular y Medicina Genómica, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, Mexico; Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM, Ciudad de México, Mexico, Mexico; Unidad de Biología Molecular y Medicina Genómica, Instituto de Investigaciones Bimédicas UNAM/ Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, Mexico.

Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas, Departamento de Endocrinología y Metabolismo, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, Mexico; Dirección de Nutrición and Unidad de Estudios de Enfermedades Metabólicas, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, Mexico

Clicerio Gonzalez Villalpando, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica y Centro de Estudios en Diabetes, Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Lorena Orozco, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Mexico, Mexico.

Myriam Fornage, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA; Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.

E. Shyong Tai, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.

Rob M. van Dam, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore

Terho Lehtimäki, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center–Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.

Nish Chaturvedi, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, UK.

Mitsuhiro Yokota, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.

Jianjun Liu, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore.

Dermot F. Reilly, Genetics, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Kenilworth, NJ, USA

Amy Jayne McKnight, Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, UK.

Frank Kee, Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, UK.

Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometrie and Epidemiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.

Mark I. McCarthy, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA; Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Colin N. A. Palmer, Population Health and Genomics, University of Dundee, Ninwells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK

Veronique Vitart, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.

Caroline Hayward, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.

Eleanor Simonsick, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Cornelia M. van Duijn, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Fan Lu, The Eye Hospital, School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.

Jia Qu, The Eye Hospital, School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.

Haretsugu Hishigaki, Biomedical Technology Research Center, Tokushima Research Institute, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Tokushima, Japan.

Xu Lin, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.

Winfried März, Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; Synlab Academy, Synlab, Mannheim, Germany; Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Esteban J. Parra, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Miguel Cruz, Unidad de Investigacion Medica en Bioquimica, Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Medico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico, Mexico.

Vilmundur Gudnason, Icelandic Heart Association, Reykjavik, Iceland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Jean-Claude Tardif, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medecine, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Quebec, Canada.

Guillaume Lettre, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Leen M. ’t Hart, Amsterdam UMC, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Section Molecular Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Petra J. M. Elders, Amsterdam UMC, Department of General Practice and Elderly Care, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Scott M. Damrauer, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Corporal Michael Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Meena Kumari, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Essex, UK.

Mika Kivimaki, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.

Pim van der Harst, Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Tim D. Spector, Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, UK

Ruth J. F. Loos, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

Michael A. Province, Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA

Bruce M. Psaty, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Kaiser Permanent Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA

Ivan Brandslund, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle, Denmark; Institute of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.

Peter P. Pramstaller, Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano, Italy

Kaare Christensen, Danish Aging Research Center, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.

Samuli Ripatti, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Elisabeth Widén, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Hakon Hakonarson, Center for Applied Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Struan F. A. Grant, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Lambertus A. L. M. Kiemeney, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jacqueline de Graaf, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Markus Loeffler, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; LIFE Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

Florian Kronenberg, German Chronic Kidney Disease Study, Innsbruck, Austria; Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Genetics and Pharmacology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

Dongfeng Gu, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Department of Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China; School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

Jeanette Erdmann, Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, DZHK (German Research Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner site Hamburg/Lübeck/Kiel, and University Heart Center Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.

Heribert Schunkert, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Klinik für Herz- und Kreislauferkrankungen, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung (DZHK) e.V., Partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany.

Paul W. Franks, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmo, Sweden

Allan Linneberg, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

J. Wouter Jukema, Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Amit V. Khera, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Program of Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA; Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Minna Männikkö, Northern Finland Birth Cohorts, Infrastructure for Population Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.

Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC–PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK; Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Biocenter of Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.

Zoltan Kutalik, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland; University Center for Primary Care and Public Health, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Francesco Cucca, Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research, Italian National Council of Research (IRGB CNR), Cagliari, Italy; University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.

Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Ko Willems van Dijk, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Hugh Watkins, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

David P. Strachan, Population Health Research Institute, St George’s University of London, London, UK

Niels Grarup, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Peter Sever, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Neil Poulter, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Jerome I. Rotter, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovations (Formerly LABioMed) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA

Thomas M. Dantoft, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Fredrik Karpe, OCDEM, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK; NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.

Matt J. Neville, OCDEM, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK; NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK

Nicholas J. Timpson, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Ching-Yu Cheng, Ocular Epidemiology, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke–NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.

Tien-Yin Wong, Ocular Epidemiology, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke–NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.

Chiea Chuen Khor, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore.

Charumathi Sabanayagam, Ocular Epidemiology, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke–NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.

Annette Peters, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany; DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Munich Heart Alliance Partner Site, Munich, Germany.

Christian Gieger, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany; Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany.

Andrew T. Hattersley, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Nancy L. Pedersen, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Dorret I. Boomsma, Department of Biological Psychology, Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Amsterdam Public Health, VU Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Amsterdam Reproduction and Development Research Institute, VU Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Eco J. C. de Geus, Department of Biological Psychology, Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

L. Adrienne Cupples, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Mohsen Ghanbari, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

Penny Gordon-Larsen, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Wei Huang, Department of Genetics, Shanghai-MOST Key Laboratory of Health and Disease Genomics, Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, Shanghai, China.

Young Jin Kim, Department of Precision Medicine, Division of Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, South Korea.

Yasuharu Tabara, Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

Nicholas J. Wareham, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK

Claudia Langenberg, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK.

Eleftheria Zeggini, Institute of Translational Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München–German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK; TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany.

Johanna Kuusisto, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.

Markku Laakso, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.

Erik Ingelsson, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Stanford Diabetes Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Goncalo Abecasis, Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY, USA.

John C. Chambers, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK; Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Southall, UK; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College London, London, UK

Jaspal S. Kooner, Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Southall, UK; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK; MRC–PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, UK; National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK

Paul S. de Vries, Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA

Alanna C. Morrison, Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA

Kari E. North, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Martha Daviglus, Institute for Minority Health Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

Peter Kraft, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Nicholas G. Martin, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

John B. Whitfield, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Shahid Abbas, Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan; Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology, Faislabad, Pakistan.

Danish Saleheen, Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan; Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Department of Cardiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.

Robin G. Walters, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Michael V. Holmes, Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK

Corri Black, Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science, School of Medicine, Medical Science and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.

Blair H. Smith, Division of Population Health and Genomics, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

Anne E. Justice, Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger Health, Danville, PA, USA

Aris Baras, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY, USA.

Julie E. Buring, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Paul M. Ridker, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Daniel I. Chasman, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Charles Kooperberg, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Division of Public Health Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA.

Wei-Qi Wei, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.

Gail P. Jarvik, Departments of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genome Sciences, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA

Bahram Namjou, Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), Cincinnati, OH, USA.

M. Geoffrey Hayes, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

Marylyn D. Ritchie, Department of Genetics, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Pekka Jousilahti, Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.

Veikko Salomaa, Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.

Kristian Hveem, K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; HUNT Research Centre, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Levanger, Norway; Department of Medicine, Levanger Hospital, Nord-Trøndelag Hospital Trust, Levanger, Norway.

Bjørn Olav Åsvold, K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; HUNT Research Centre, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Levanger, Norway; Department of Endocrinology, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.

Michiaki Kubo, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.

Yoichiro Kamatani, Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan; Laboratory of Complex Trait Genomics, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Yukinori Okada, Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan; Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; Laboratory of Statistical Immunology, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; Integrated Frontier Research for Medical Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

Yoshinori Murakami, Division of Molecular Pathology, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Kari Stefansson, deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Yuk-Lam Ho, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.

Julie A. Lynch, VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA

Daniel J. Rader, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Philip S. Tsao, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Kyong-Mi Chang, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Kelly Cho, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Brigham Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Christopher J. O’Donnell, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Brigham Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

John M. Gaziano, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Brigham Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Peter Wilson, Atlanta VA Medical Center, Atlanta, GA, USA; Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Charles N. Rotimi, Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Scott Hazelhurst, Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Michèle Ramsay, Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Richard C. Trembath, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, UK

David A. van Heel, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Gen Tamiya, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Masayuki Yamamoto, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Bong-Jo Kim, Department of Precision Medicine, Division of Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, South Korea.

Karen L. Mohlke, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Timothy M. Frayling, Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Joel N. Hirschhorn, Endocrinology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA; Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Sekar Kathiresan, Program of Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Genomic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Michael Boehnke, Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistics Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Pradeep Natarajan, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA; Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Cardiovascular Research Center and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Gina M. Peloso, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Christopher D. Brown, Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Andrew P. Morris, Centre for Genetics and Genomics Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Themistocles L. Assimes, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Panos Deloukas, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Yan V. Sun, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; Atlanta VA Health Care System, Decatur, GA, USA

Cristen J. Willer, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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