About the Authors

Annukka M. Lahtinen

Contributed equally to this work with: Annukka M. Lahtinen, Peter A. Noseworthy

Affiliation Research Programs Unit, Molecular Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Peter A. Noseworthy

Contributed equally to this work with: Annukka M. Lahtinen, Peter A. Noseworthy

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Center and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aki S. Havulinna

Affiliation National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Antti Jula

Affiliation National Institute for Health and Welfare, Turku, Finland

Pekka J. Karhunen

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Tampere and Centre for Laboratory Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Johannes Kettunen

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine FIMM, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Markus Perola

Affiliations National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Institute of Molecular Medicine FIMM, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Kimmo Kontula

Affiliation Research Programs Unit, Molecular Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Christopher Newton-Cheh

veikko.salomaa@thl.fi (VS); cnewtoncheh@chgr.mgh.harvard.edu (CS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Center and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Veikko Salomaa

veikko.salomaa@thl.fi (VS); cnewtoncheh@chgr.mgh.harvard.edu (CS)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AML PAN ASH AJ PJK JK MP KK CNC VS. Performed the experiments: AML. Analyzed the data: ASH JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PAN ASH AJ PJK JK MP KK CNC VS. Wrote the paper: AML PAN ASH KK CNC VS.