About the Authors
- Kristen N. Stevens
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Hakon Hakonarson
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Affiliation The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Cecilia E. Kim
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Affiliation The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Pieter A. Doevendans
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Affiliation Department of Cardiology, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Bobby P. C. Koeleman
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Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Seema Mital
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Affiliation Heart Center, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Jennifer Raue
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Affiliation The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Joseph T. Glessner
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Affiliation The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- John G. Coles
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Affiliation Heart Center, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Victor Moreno
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Affiliation Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Unit, IDIBELL-Catalan Institute of Oncology and University of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Anne Granger
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Affiliation The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Stephen B. Gruber
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* E-mail: sgruber@umich.edu (SBG); pgruber@mail.med.upenn.edu (PJG)
Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Peter J. Gruber
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* E-mail: sgruber@umich.edu (SBG); pgruber@mail.med.upenn.edu (PJG)
Affiliations The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SBG PJG. Performed the experiments: KNS CEK AG. Analyzed the data: KNS VM SBG PJG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH CEK PAD BPCK SM JTG JC VM PJG. Wrote the paper: KNS SBG PJG. Recruited patients: JR. Originated and designed the project, analyzed the results: PJG. Co-wrote the manuscript: PJG KNS SBG. Provided guidance, design, and support throughout the project: KNS SBG. At the Center for Applied Genomics performed the genotyping and control populations providing selected data to PJG and SBG: HH CEK JTG. Supervised the data analysis: JTG VM SBG. Performed all of the sequencing, custom genotyping and analytic programming: KNS. Coordinated the clinical collection of samples: PJG JR. Was involved in preliminary experiments: AG. Provided samples from Toronto: SM JGC. Provided samples from the Netherlands: PAD BPCK.