The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids.


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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
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Date de publication:
12 2021
Historique:
received: 15 09 2020
accepted: 27 09 2021
pubmed: 11 12 2021
medline: 16 4 2022
entrez: 10 12 2021
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Résumé

Increased blood lipid levels are heritable risk factors of cardiovascular disease with varied prevalence worldwide owing to different dietary patterns and medication use

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Auteurs

Sarah E Graham (SE)

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

Shoa L Clarke (SL)

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 (KH)

Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Stavroula Kanoni (S)

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

Greg J M Zajac (GJM)

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

Shweta Ramdas (S)

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

Ida Surakka (I)

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

Ioanna Ntalla (I)

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

Sailaja Vedantam (S)

Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Thomas W Winkler (TW)

Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Adam E Locke (AE)

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

Eirini Marouli (E)

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

Mi Yeong Hwang (MY)

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

Sohee Han (S)

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

Akira Narita (A)

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

Ananyo Choudhury (A)

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

Amy R Bentley (AR)

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

Kenneth Ekoru (K)

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

Anurag Verma (A)

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

Bhavi Trivedi (B)

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

Hilary C Martin (HC)

Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.

Karen A Hunt (KA)

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

Qin Hui (Q)

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

Derek Klarin (D)

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 (X)

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 (G)

deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Anna Helgadottir (A)

deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Daniel F Gudbjartsson (DF)

deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland.
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Hilma Holm (H)

deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Isleifur Olafsson (I)

Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Landspitali-National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Masato Akiyama (M)

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 (S)

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 (C)

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

Masahiro Kanai (M)

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 (W)

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 (BM)

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 (H)

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 (SE)

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

Aki S Havulinna (AS)

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 (Y)

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

QiPing Feng (Q)

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

Elisabeth A Rosenthal (EA)

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

Todd Lingren (T)

Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Jennifer Allen Pacheco (JA)

Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

Sarah A Pendergrass (SA)

Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.

Jeffrey Haessler (J)

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

Franco Giulianini (F)

Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Yuki Bradford (Y)

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

Jason E Miller (JE)

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

Archie Campbell (A)

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 (K)

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

Iona Y Millwood (IY)

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 (G)

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

Asif Rasheed (A)

Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan.

Jessica D Faul (JD)

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

Wei Zhao (W)

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

David R Weir (DR)

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

Constance Turman (C)

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

Hongyan Huang (H)

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

Mariaelisa Graff (M)

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

Anubha Mahajan (A)

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

Michael R Brown (MR)

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 (W)

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 (K)

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

Ellen M Schmidt (EM)

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

Anita Pandit (A)

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

Stefan Gustafsson (S)

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

Xianyong Yin (X)

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

Jian'an Luan (J)

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

Jing-Hua Zhao (JH)

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

Fumihiko Matsuda (F)

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

Hye-Mi Jang (HM)

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

Kyungheon Yoon (K)

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

Carolina Medina-Gomez (C)

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 (A)

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

Jouke Jan Hottenga (JJ)

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 (G)

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 (AR)

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

Yingji Ji (Y)

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

Zishan Gao (Z)

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 (S)

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

Ruth E Mitchell (RE)

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 (JF)

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

Mette Aadahl (M)

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

Jie Yao (J)

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 (A)

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

Helen R Warren (HR)

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 (J)

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 (J)

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

Line L Kårhus (LL)

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

Anuj Goel (A)

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 (M)

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 (R)

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

Carlo Sidore (C)

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

Edoardo Fiorillo (E)

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

Aaron F McDaid (AF)

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

Pedro Marques-Vidal (P)

Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Matthias Wielscher (M)

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

Stella Trompet (S)

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 (N)

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

Line T Møllehave (LT)

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

Betina H Thuesen (BH)

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

Matthias Munz (M)

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 (L)

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 (J)

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 (B)

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 (A)

Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmo, Sweden.

Azra Kurbasic (A)

Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmo, Sweden.

Claudia Lamina (C)

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

Lukas Forer (L)

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

Markus Scholz (M)

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 (TE)

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

Jonathan P Bradfield (JP)

Quantinuum Research, Wayne, PA, USA.

E Warwick Daw (EW)

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

Joseph M Zmuda (JM)

Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Jonathan S Mitchell (JS)

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

Christian Fuchsberger (C)

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

Henry Christensen (H)

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

Jennifer A Brody (JA)

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

Mary F Feitosa (MF)

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

Mary K Wojczynski (MK)

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

Michael Preuss (M)

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

Massimo Mangino (M)

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 (P)

Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK.

Niek Verweij (N)

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

Jan W Benjamins (JW)

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

Jorgen Engmann (J)

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

Rachel L Kember (RL)

Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Roderick C Slieker (RC)

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 (KS)

Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Nuno R Zilhao (NR)

Icelandic Heart Association, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Phuong Le (P)

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

Marcus E Kleber (ME)

Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
Synlab MVZ Humangenetik Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.

Graciela E Delgado (GE)

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

Shaofeng Huo (S)

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

Daisuke D Ikeda (DD)

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

Hiroyuki Iha (H)

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

Jian Yang (J)

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

Jun Liu (J)

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

Hampton L Leonard (HL)

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

Jonathan Marten (J)

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

Börge Schmidt (B)

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

Marina Arendt (M)

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 (LJ)

Centre for Public Health, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK.

Marisa Cañadas-Garre (M)

Centre for Public Health, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK.

Chaolong Wang (C)

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 (M)

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

Andrew Wong (A)

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

Nina Hutri-Kähönen (N)

Department of Pediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.

Xueling Sim (X)

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

Rui Xia (R)

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

Alicia Huerta-Chagoya (A)

Departamento de Medicina Genómica y Toxicología Ambiental, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, Mexico.

Juan Carlos Fernandez-Lopez (JC)

Departamento de Genómica Computacional, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, Mexico.

Valeriya Lyssenko (V)

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

Meraj Ahmed (M)

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

Anne U Jackson (AU)

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

Noha A Yousri (NA)

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

Marguerite R Irvin (MR)

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

Christopher Oldmeadow (C)

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

Han-Na Kim (HN)

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 (S)

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 (PRHJ)

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 (L)

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

Rajkumar Dorajoo (R)

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

Leslie A Lange (LA)

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

Xiaoran Chai (X)

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 (G)

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 (L)

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

Marc Pauper (M)

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

Jirong Long (J)

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

Xiaohui Li (X)

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 (E)

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

Fumihiko Takeuchi (F)

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

Cassandra N Spracklen (CN)

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 (A)

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

Sailalitha Bollepalli (S)

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

Sophie C Warner (SC)

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK.

Ya Xing Wang (YX)

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 (WB)

Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

Teresa Nutile (T)

Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso"-CNR, Naples, Italy.

Daniela Ruggiero (D)

Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso"-CNR, Naples, Italy.
IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Isernia, Italy.

Yun Ju Sung (YJ)

Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA.

Yi-Jen Hung (YJ)

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

Shufeng Chen (S)

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 (F)

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 (J)

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 (KA)

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

Mathias Gorski (M)

Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Marco Brumat (M)

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

Karina Meidtner (K)

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

Lawrence F Bielak (LF)

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

Jennifer A Smith (JA)

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 (P)

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

Aliki-Eleni Farmaki (AE)

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 (E)

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 (M)

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

Chao Xue (C)

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

Jifeng Zhang (J)

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

Maria Pina Concas (MP)

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

Simona Vaccargiu (S)

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

Peter J van der Most (PJ)

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

Niina Pitkänen (N)

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 (BE)

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 (J)

Sleep Medicine and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Sander W van der Laan (SW)

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

Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala (KN)

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

Stefan Weiss (S)

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

Martina E Zimmermann (ME)

Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Hyeok Sun Choi (HS)

Department of Biomedical Science, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea.

Maria Nethander (M)

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 (S)

Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.

Lorraine Southam (L)

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

Nigel W Rayner (NW)

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 (CA)

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

Shih-Yi Lin (SY)

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 (JS)

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 (C)

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

Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen (LP)

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 (K)

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 (G)

University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Henrik Vestergaard (H)

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 (B)

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

Olga Giannakopoulou (O)

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

Qiuyin Cai (Q)

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

Morgan O Obura (MO)

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

Jessica van Setten (J)

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

Xiaoyin Li (X)

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

Karen Schwander (K)

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

Natalie Terzikhan (N)

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

Jae Hun Shin (JH)

Department of Biomedical Science, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea.

Rebecca D Jackson (RD)

Division of Endocrinology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

Alexander P Reiner (AP)

Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Lisa Warsinger Martin (LW)

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

Zhengming Chen (Z)

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 (L)

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

Heather M Highland (HM)

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

Kristin L Young (KL)

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

Takahisa Kawaguchi (T)

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

Joachim Thiery (J)

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

Joshua C Bis (JC)

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

Girish N Nadkarni (GN)

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

Lenore J Launer (LJ)

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

Huaixing Li (H)

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

Mike A Nalls (MA)

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

Olli T Raitakari (OT)

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 (S)

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

Sarah H Wild (SH)

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

Christopher P Nelson (CP)

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK.

Harry Campbell (H)

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

Susanne Jäger (S)

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

Toru Nabika (T)

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

Fahd Al-Mulla (F)

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

Harri Niinikoski (H)

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 (PS)

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK.

Ivana Kolcic (I)

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

Peter Kovacs (P)

Medical Department III-Endocrinology, Nephrology, Rheumatology, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany.

Tota Giardoglou (T)

Department of Nutrition-Dietetics, Harokopio University, Eleftheriou Venizelou, Athens, Greece.

Tomohiro Katsuya (T)

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 (KF)

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

Dominique de Kleijn (D)

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

Gert J de Borst (GJ)

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

Eung Kweon Kim (EK)

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

Hieab H H Adams (HHH)

Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

M Arfan Ikram (MA)

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

Xiaofeng Zhu (X)

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

Folkert W Asselbergs (FW)

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

Adriaan O Kraaijeveld (AO)

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

Joline W J Beulens (JWJ)

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 (XO)

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

Loukianos S Rallidis (LS)

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

Oluf Pedersen (O)

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

Torben Hansen (T)

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

Paul Mitchell (P)

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

Alex W Hewitt (AW)

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 (M)

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 (L)

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

Claude Bouchard (C)

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

Anke Tönjes (A)

Medical Department III-Endocrinology, Nephrology, Rheumatology, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany.

Yii-Der Ida Chen (YI)

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 (CE)

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

Trevor A Mori (TA)

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

Wolfgang Lieb (W)

Institute of Epidemiology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.

Andre Franke (A)

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

Claes Ohlsson (C)

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 (D)

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 (YS)

Department of Biomedical Science, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea.

Hyejin Lee (H)

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

Jian-Min Yuan (JM)

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 (WP)

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 (SY)

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

Jeong-Taek Woo (JT)

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

Iris M Heid (IM)

Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Klaus J Stark (KJ)

Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Henry Völzke (H)

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

Georg Homuth (G)

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

Michele K Evans (MK)

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

Alan B Zonderman (AB)

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

Ozren Polasek (O)

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

Gerard Pasterkamp (G)

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

Imo E Hoefer (IE)

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

Susan Redline (S)

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 (K)

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 (AJ)

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

Harold Snieder (H)

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

Ginevra Biino (G)

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

Reinhold Schmidt (R)

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

Helena Schmidt (H)

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

Y Eugene Chen (YE)

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

Stefania Bandinelli (S)

Local Health Unit Toscana Centro, Firenze, Italy.

George Dedoussis (G)

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

Thangavel Alphonse Thanaraj (TA)

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

Sharon L R Kardia (SLR)

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

Norihiro Kato (N)

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

Matthias B Schulze (MB)

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 (G)

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 (B)

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

Carsten A Böger (CA)

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 (PK)

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

David A Bennett (DA)

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 (PL)

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 (X)

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 (V)

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

Morris Brown (M)

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 (MJ)

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 (PB)

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 (X)

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 (M)

Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso"-CNR, Naples, Italy.
IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Isernia, Italy.

Jost B Jonas (JB)

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 (NJ)

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK.

Jaakko Kaprio (J)

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

Päivi Pajukanta (P)

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

Linda S Adair (LS)

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 (SA)

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 (HJ)

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka.

Ananda R Wickremasinghe (AR)

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

Ronald M Krauss (RM)

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

Jer-Yuarn Wu (JY)

Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

Wei Zheng (W)

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

Anneke I den Hollander (AI)

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

Dwaipayan Bharadwaj (D)

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 (A)

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

James G Wilson (JG)

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

Lars Lind (L)

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

Chew-Kiat Heng (CK)

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 (AE)

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 (YM)

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 (JF)

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 (B)

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 (HL)

Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

John Attia (J)

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 (RJ)

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 (DC)

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

Donna K Arnett (DK)

University of Kentucky, College of Public Health, Lexington, KY, USA.

Steven C Hunt (SC)

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

Mark Walker (M)

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

Heikki A Koistinen (HA)

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 (GR)

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 (CS)

Diabetology Research Centre, KEM Hospital and Research Centre, Pune, India.

Josep M Mercader (JM)

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 (T)

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 (CA)

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 (CG)

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

Lorena Orozco (L)

Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Mexico, Mexico.

Myriam Fornage (M)

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 (ES)

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 (RM)

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 (T)

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 (N)

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

Mitsuhiro Yokota (M)

Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.

Jianjun Liu (J)

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

Dermot F Reilly (DF)

Genetics, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Kenilworth, NJ, USA.

Amy Jayne McKnight (AJ)

Centre for Public Health, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK.

Frank Kee (F)

Centre for Public Health, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK.

Karl-Heinz Jöckel (KH)

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

Mark I McCarthy (MI)

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 (CNA)

Population Health and Genomics, University of Dundee, Ninwells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK.

Veronique Vitart (V)

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

Caroline Hayward (C)

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

Eleanor Simonsick (E)

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

Cornelia M van Duijn (CM)

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

Fan Lu (F)

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

Jia Qu (J)

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

Haretsugu Hishigaki (H)

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

Xu Lin (X)

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

Winfried März (W)

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 (EJ)

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

Miguel Cruz (M)

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

Vilmundur Gudnason (V)

Icelandic Heart Association, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Jean-Claude Tardif (JC)

Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medecine, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Quebec, Canada.

Guillaume Lettre (G)

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

Leen M 't Hart (LM)

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 (PJM)

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

Scott M Damrauer (SM)

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

Meena Kumari (M)

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

Mika Kivimaki (M)

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

Pim van der Harst (P)

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

Tim D Spector (TD)

Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK.

Ruth J F Loos (RJF)

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 (MA)

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

Bruce M Psaty (BM)

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 (I)

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

Peter P Pramstaller (PP)

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

Kaare Christensen (K)

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

Samuli Ripatti (S)

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 (E)

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

Hakon Hakonarson (H)

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 (SFA)

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 (LALM)

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

Jacqueline de Graaf (J)

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

Markus Loeffler (M)

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 (F)

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

Dongfeng Gu (D)

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 (J)

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 (H)

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 (PW)

Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmo, Sweden.

Allan Linneberg (A)

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 (JW)

Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Amit V Khera (AV)

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 (M)

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

Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin (MR)

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 (Z)

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

Francesco Cucca (F)

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

Dennis O Mook-Kanamori (DO)

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 (KW)

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 (H)

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 (DP)

Population Health Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, UK.

Niels Grarup (N)

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

Peter Sever (P)

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

Neil Poulter (N)

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

Jerome I Rotter (JI)

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 (TM)

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

Fredrik Karpe (F)

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

Matt J Neville (MJ)

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

Nicholas J Timpson (NJ)

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 (CY)

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 (TY)

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 (CC)

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

Charumathi Sabanayagam (C)

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 (A)

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 (C)

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 (AT)

University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

Nancy L Pedersen (NL)

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

Patrik K E Magnusson (PKE)

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

Dorret I Boomsma (DI)

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 (EJC)

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 (LA)

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 (JBJ)

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 (M)

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 (P)

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 (W)

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

Young Jin Kim (YJ)

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

Yasuharu Tabara (Y)

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

Nicholas J Wareham (NJ)

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

Claudia Langenberg (C)

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

Eleftheria Zeggini (E)

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 (J)

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

Markku Laakso (M)

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

Erik Ingelsson (E)

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 (G)

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

John C Chambers (JC)

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 (JS)

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 (PS)

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 (AC)

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 (KE)

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

Martha Daviglus (M)

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

Peter Kraft (P)

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 (NG)

QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

John B Whitfield (JB)

QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Shahid Abbas (S)

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

Danish Saleheen (D)

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 (RG)

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 (MV)

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 (C)

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

Blair H Smith (BH)

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

Anne E Justice (AE)

Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger Health, Danville, PA, USA.

Aris Baras (A)

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY, USA.

Julie E Buring (JE)

Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Paul M Ridker (PM)

Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Daniel I Chasman (DI)

Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Charles Kooperberg (C)

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

Wei-Qi Wei (WQ)

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

Gail P Jarvik (GP)

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

Bahram Namjou (B)

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

M Geoffrey Hayes (MG)

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 (MD)

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

Pekka Jousilahti (P)

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

Veikko Salomaa (V)

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

Kristian Hveem (K)

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 (BO)

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 (M)

RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.

Yoichiro Kamatani (Y)

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 (Y)

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 (Y)

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

Unnur Thorsteinsdottir (U)

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

Kari Stefansson (K)

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

Yuk-Lam Ho (YL)

VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.

Julie A Lynch (JA)

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 (DJ)

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 (PS)

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 (KM)

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 (K)

VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Medicine, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Christopher J O'Donnell (CJ)

VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Medicine, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

John M Gaziano (JM)

VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Medicine, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Peter Wilson (P)

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

Charles N Rotimi (CN)

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

Scott Hazelhurst (S)

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 (M)

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 (RC)

School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.

David A van Heel (DA)

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

Gen Tamiya (G)

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

Masayuki Yamamoto (M)

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

Bong-Jo Kim (BJ)

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

Karen L Mohlke (KL)

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

Timothy M Frayling (TM)

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

Joel N Hirschhorn (JN)

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 (S)

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 (M)

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

Pradeep Natarajan (P)

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 (GM)

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

Christopher D Brown (CD)

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

Andrew P Morris (AP)

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 (TL)

VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA. tassimes@stanford.edu.
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. tassimes@stanford.edu.
Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. tassimes@stanford.edu.

Panos Deloukas (P)

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 (YV)

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

Cristen J Willer (CJ)

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. cristen@umich.edu.
Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. cristen@umich.edu.
Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. cristen@umich.edu.

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