About the Authors
- Mengmeng Du
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* E-mail: mdu@fhcrc.org
Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jennifer Prescott
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Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Marilyn C. Cornelis
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Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Susan E. Hankinson
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Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Edward Giovannucci
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Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Peter Kraft
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Affiliations Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Immaculata De Vivo
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Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The genome-wide association study of cardiovascular disease was supported in part by Merck/Rosetta Research Laboratories. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MD JP MC SEH EG PK ID. Data interpretation: MD JP MC SEH EG PK ID. Analyzed the data: MD JP. Wrote the paper: MD JP MC SEH EG PK ID. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD JP MC SEH EG PK ID. Performed the experiments: MD JP.