About the Authors
- Christian Herder
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Affiliation Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Wouter Peeters
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Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Thomas Illig
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Affiliation Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Jens Baumert
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Dominique P. V. de Kleijn
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Affiliations Experimental Cardiology Laboratory, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Frans L. Moll
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Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Ulrike Poschen
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Affiliation Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Norman Klopp
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Affiliation Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Martina Müller-Nurasyid
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Affiliations Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Michael Roden
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Affiliations Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of Metabolic Diseases, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Michael Preuss
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Affiliation Institute for Medical Biometrics and Statistics, Universität of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- CARDIoGRAM Consortium
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¶Members and affiliations of the CARDIoGRAM Consortium are listed in the Supplementary Information (Online
Text S1 ). - Mahir Karakas
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II-Cardiology, University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
- Christa Meisinger
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Barbara Thorand
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* E-mail: thorand@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Gerard Pasterkamp
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Contributed equally to this work with: Gerard Pasterkamp, Wolfgang Koenig
Affiliation Experimental Cardiology Laboratory, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Wolfgang Koenig
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Contributed equally to this work with: Gerard Pasterkamp, Wolfgang Koenig
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II-Cardiology, University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Potential competing interests related to the funding of the CARDIoGRAM Consortium are listed in our supplementary file entitled “Text S2. Funding information and competing interests of the CARDIoGRAM Consortium”.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CH WP TI NK MP CARDIoGRAM BT GP WK. Performed the experiments: CH WP TI DPVdK FLM UP NK MP CARDIoGRAM CM BT GP WK. Analyzed the data: CH WP JB MM MP CARDIoGRAM BT GP WK. Wrote the paper: CH. Edited and reviewed the manuscript: CH WP TI JB DPVdK FLM UP NK MM MR MP CARDIoGRAM MK CM BT GP WK.