About the Authors
- Kiran Musunuru
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Affiliations Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Simon P. R. Romaine
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Affiliation University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Guillaume Lettre
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Affiliation Montreal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
- James G. Wilson
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Affiliation University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
- Kelly A. Volcik
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Affiliation The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Michael Y. Tsai
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Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Herman A. Taylor Jr.
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Affiliations University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
- Pamela J. Schreiner
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Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Jerome I. Rotter
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Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Stephen S. Rich
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Affiliation University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Susan Redline
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Affiliation University Hospitals, Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Bruce M. Psaty
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Affiliations University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- George J. Papanicolaou
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Affiliation National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Jose M. Ordovas
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Affiliation JM-United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kiang Liu
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Affiliation Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Ronald M. Krauss
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Affiliation Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America
- Nicole L. Glazer
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Affiliation Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Stacey B. Gabriel
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Affiliation Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Myriam Fornage
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Affiliation The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- L. Adrienne Cupples
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Affiliations Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, The National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Sarah G. Buxbaum
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Affiliation Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
- Eric Boerwinkle
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Affiliation The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Christie M. Ballantyne
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* E-mail: cmb@bcm.edu (CMB); sekar@broadinstitute.org (SK); rader@mail.med.upenn.edu (DJR)
Affiliation Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Sekar Kathiresan
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* E-mail: cmb@bcm.edu (CMB); sekar@broadinstitute.org (SK); rader@mail.med.upenn.edu (DJR)
Affiliations Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Daniel J. Rader
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* E-mail: cmb@bcm.edu (CMB); sekar@broadinstitute.org (SK); rader@mail.med.upenn.edu (DJR)
Affiliation 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: KM CMB SK DJR. Performed the experiments: KM SPRR. Analyzed the data: KM SPRR GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JGW KAV MYT HAT PJS JIR SSR SR BMP GJP JMO KL RMK NLG SBG MF LAC SGB EB. Wrote the paper: KM.