About the Authors
- Anna Köttgen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Köttgen, Qiong Yang
Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Renal Division, Freiburg University Clinic, Freiburg, Germany
- Qiong Yang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Köttgen, Qiong Yang
Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachussets, United States of America
- Lawrence C. Shimmin
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Affiliation Human Genetics Center, Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control, UT-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Adrienne Tin
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Céline Schaeffer
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Affiliation Dulbecco Telethon Institute and Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
- Josef Coresh
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Xuan Liu
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachussets, United States of America
- Luca Rampoldi
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Affiliation Dulbecco Telethon Institute and Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
- Shih-Jen Hwang
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Affiliation NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study and the Center for Population Studies, Framingham, Massachussets, United States of America
- Eric Boerwinkle
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Affiliation Human Genetics Center, Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control, UT-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- James E. Hixson
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Affiliation Human Genetics Center, Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control, UT-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- W. H. Linda Kao
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Caroline S. Fox
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* E-mail: foxca@nhlbi.nih.gov
Affiliations NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study and the Center for Population Studies, Framingham, Massachussets, United States of America, Division of Endocrinology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachussets, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AK QY LCS JC LR EB JEH WHK CSF. Performed the experiments: LCS CS LR JEH. Analyzed the data: AK QY XL AT SJH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LCS LR SJH JEH EB. Wrote the paper: AK QY WHK CSF.