About the Authors

Suthesh Sivapalaratnam

s.sivapalaratnam@amc.uva.nl

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Hanneke Basart

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Nicholas A. Watkins

Affiliations Department of Hematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stepanie Maiwald

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Augusto Rendon

Affiliations Department of Hematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom, MRC-Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Unni Krishnan

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Cardiovascular Disease, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

Brigitte M. Sondermeijer

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Esther E. Creemers

Affiliation Heart Failure Research Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sara J. Pinto-Sietsma

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kees Hovingh

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Willem H. Ouwehand

Affiliations Department of Hematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

John J. P. Kastelein

Affiliation Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Alison H. Goodall

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Cardiovascular Disease, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom

Mieke D. Trip

Affiliations Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS NW WHO JJPK AHG MDT. Performed the experiments: SS HB SM UK. Analyzed the data: SS NW AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NW UK BMS EC SJP WHO JJPK MDT. Wrote the paper: SS HB MDT AHG KH.