About the Authors

Gavin Lucas

glucas@imim.es

Affiliation Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain

Carla Lluís-Ganella

Affiliation Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain

Isaac Subirana

Affiliations Epidemiology and Public Health Network (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain

Muntaser D. Musameh

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

Juan Ramon Gonzalez

Affiliations Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, Epidemiology and Public Health Network (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain

Christopher P. Nelson

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

Mariano Sentí

Affiliations Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium

Contributed equally to this work with: the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium, the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium

Membership of the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium is provided in File S1.

the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium

Contributed equally to this work with: the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium, the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium

Membership of the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium is provided in File S1.

Stephen M. Schwartz

Affiliation Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David Siscovick

Affiliation Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christopher J. O’Donnell

Affiliations National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Olle Melander

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Hypertension and Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Veikko Salomaa

Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Shaun Purcell

Affiliations Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Altshuler

Affiliations The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nilesh J. Samani

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

Sekar Kathiresan

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Center and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Roberto Elosua

Affiliations Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain, Epidemiology and Public Health Network (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL CL IS JRG MS SMS DS CJO OM VS SP DA NJS SK RE. Performed the experiments: GL CL IS MDM JRG CPN. Analyzed the data: GL CL IS MDM JRG CPN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL IS JRG SMS DS CJO OM VS SP DA NJS SK RE. Wrote the paper: GL CL IS JRG MS RE.