About the Authors

Stephen Newhouse

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and the London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Martin Farrall

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom

Chris Wallace

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and the London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Mimoza Hoti

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and the London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Beverley Burke

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and the London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Philip Howard

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and the London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Abiodun Onipinla

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and the London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Kate Lee

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and the London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Sue Shaw-Hawkins

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and the London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Richard Dobson

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and the London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Morris Brown

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and the Cambridge Institute of Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nilesh J. Samani

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

Anna F. Dominiczak

Affiliation BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom

John M. Connell

Affiliation BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom

G. Mark Lathrop

Affiliation Centre National de Genotypage, Evry, France

Jaspal Kooner

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

John Chambers

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Paul Elliott

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Robert Clarke

Affiliation Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Rory Collins

Affiliation Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Maris Laan

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Elin Org

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Peeter Juhanson

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Gudrun Veldre

Affiliations Department of Cardiology and Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Centre of Cardiology, North Estonia Medical Centre, Tallinn, Estonia

Margus Viigimaa

Affiliation Centre of Cardiology, North Estonia Medical Centre, Tallinn, Estonia

Susana Eyheramendy

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Francesco P. Cappuccio

Affiliation Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, United Kingdom

Chen Ji

Affiliation Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, United Kingdom

Roberto Iacone

Affiliation Department of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, Federico II University of Naples Medical School, Naples, Italy

Pasquale Strazzullo

Affiliation Department of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, Federico II University of Naples Medical School, Naples, Italy

Meena Kumari

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Michael Marmot

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Eric Brunner

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Mark Caulfield

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and the London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Patricia B. Munroe

p.b.munroe@qmul.ac.uk

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and the London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJN MF PM. Performed the experiments: SJN MH BB PH AKO KL SSH. Analyzed the data: SJN MF CW RD SE PM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJN MF CW MB NJS AFD JC ML JK JC PE RC RC ML EO PJ GV MV FPC CJ RI PS MK MM EB MC PM. Wrote the paper: SJN MF PM. Contributed to editing the paper: ML ML FPC MC.