About the Authors

Anna Köttgen

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

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

Affiliation Human Genetics Center, Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control, UT-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Adrienne Tin

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Céline Schaeffer

Affiliation Dulbecco Telethon Institute and Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Josef Coresh

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachussets, United States of America

Luca Rampoldi

Affiliation Dulbecco Telethon Institute and Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Shih-Jen Hwang

Affiliation NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study and the Center for Population Studies, Framingham, Massachussets, United States of America

Eric Boerwinkle

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

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

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

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.