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Supplementary Figure 2a: Conditioning analyses to evaluate association on chr1q24.2 (previously reported). Round indicator represents a genotyped SNP; cross indicator represents an imputed SNP. �
Nature Genetics: doi:10.1038/ng.3842
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Supplementary Figure 2b: Conditioning analyses to evaluate association on chr4q25 (previously reported). Round indicator represents a genotyped SNP; cross indicator represents an imputed SNP. �
Nature Genetics: doi:10.1038/ng.3842
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Supplementary Figure 2c: Conditioning analyses to evaluate association on chr6q22.31 (previously reported). Round indicator represents a genotyped SNP; cross indicator represents an imputed SNP. �
Nature Genetics: doi:10.1038/ng.3842
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Supplementary Figure 2d: Conditioning analyses to evaluate association on chr7q31.2 (previously reported). Round indicator represents a genotyped SNP; cross indicator represents an imputed SNP �
Nature Genetics: doi:10.1038/ng.3842
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Supplementary Figure 2e: Conditioning analyses to evaluate association on chr10q22.2 (previously reported). Round indicator represents a genotyped SNP; cross indicator represents an imputed SNP. �
Nature Genetics: doi:10.1038/ng.3842
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Supplementary Figure 2f: Conditioning analyses to evaluate association on chr12q24.1 (previously reported). Round indicator represents a genotyped SNP; cross indicator represents an imputed SNP. �
Nature Genetics: doi:10.1038/ng.3842
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Supplementary Figure 2g: Conditioning analyses to evaluate association on chr16q22.3 (previously reported). Round indicator represents a genotyped SNP; cross indicator represents an imputed SNP. �
Nature Genetics: doi:10.1038/ng.3842
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Supplementary Figure 2h: Conditioning analyses to evaluate association on chr1p13.2 (novel locus). Round indicator represents a genotyped SNP; cross indicator represents an imputed SNP. �
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Supplementary Table 2: Conditioning analyses on Chr4q25, Chr4q34 and Chr10q24
CHR SNP BP A1 A2 A1_freq_Case A2_freq_Ctrl Stage P5value OR L95 U95 Gene/NearbyBgeneChr4q25
4 rs2220427 111714889 T C 0.578 0.447 Before4adjustment 1.65E>134 1.707 1.635 1.783 PITX2After4rs38534454adjustment 2.59E>118 1.660 1.590 1.733After4rs68430824adjustment 1.73E>34 1.397 1.325 1.472
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4 rs3853445 111761487 T C 0.718 0.661 Before4adjustment 2.42E>34 1.330 1.271 1.391 PITX2After4rs68430824adjustment 7.01E>42 1.379 1.315 1.445After4rs22204274adjustment 1.59E>17 1.225 1.169 1.284
After4rs68430824and4rs22204274adjustment 1.21E>27 1.305 1.245 1.368Chr4q34
4 rs17059534 174444902 A G 0.098 0.082 Before4adjustment 2.85E>10 1.266 1.176 1.362 HAND2After4rs76986924adjustment 1.63E>09 1.255 1.167 1.349
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Chr10q2410 rs60572254 105324774 T C 0.1189 0.0869 Before4adjustment 2.92E>24 1.430 1.336 1.532 NEURL
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Supplementary Table 7: Proportion of heritability explained by loci identified by the GWAS for atrial fibrillation of Japanese population
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Supplementary Table 8: Meta-analyses of six novel SNPs identified from Japanese atrial fibrillation studies with datasets obtained from AFGen (European descendant)
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1 rs12044963 KCND3 112392360 Japan_meta A C 11229 153655 0.502 2.52E715 1.140 1.104 1.177 2.50E701
AFGen A C 15993 113719 0.102 1.24E702 1.058 1.012 1.106 3.05E701
Combined 3.94E715 1.110 1.082 1.140 1.45E702
1 rs17461925 PPFIA4 203026591 Japan_meta A G 11260 153670 0.797 8.69E718 1.200 1.151 1.250 2.92E701
AFGen A G 15993 113719 0.620 2.77E702 1.030 1.003 1.058 2.90E701
Combined A G 8.56E711 1.077 1.053 1.102 6.81E709
2 rs2540953 SLC1A4.CEP68 65272362 Japan_meta G A 10911 153680 0.650 2.06E715 1.154 1.114 1.196 2.71E701
AFGen G A 15993 113719 0.480 2.98E706 1.063 1.036 1.091 8.26E701
Combined G A 3.10E717 1.094 1.071 1.117 6.23E704
4 rs7698692 HAND2 174604104 Japan_meta A G 11298 153500 0.505 1.21E721 1.170 1.133 1.209 1.15E701
AFGen A G 15993 113719 0.961 8.96E702 0.939 0.873 1.010 4.40E701
Combined A G 8.21E716 1.129 1.096 1.163 1.19E707
10 rs2296610 NEBL 21157621 Japan_meta T G 11181 153661 0.125 1.51E714 1.201 1.146 1.258 7.56E701
AFGen T G 15993 113719 0.054 6.43E701 1.057 0.836 1.336 6.69E701
Combined T G 2.37E714 1.195 1.141 1.251 5.51E701
10 rs2047036 SH3PXD2A 105477163 Japan_meta G A 11276 153676 0.257 4.04E716 1.162 1.121 1.205 6.49E702
AFGen G A 15993 113719 0.388 2.64E702 1.032 1.004 1.061 6.10E701
Combined G A 2.06E711 1.078 1.055 1.102 3.66E707
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Supplementary Table 10: eQTL analyses to evaluate the correlation of genotypes with gene expression
CHR SNP BP A1 A2 GWAS_P.value OR L95 U95 Gencode=Id Gene=Symbol eQTL.P.Value Effect=Size Tissue1 rs17461925 203026591 G A 2.33E.13 0.819 0.776 0.864 ENSG00000143847.11 PPFIA4 2.50E.06 0.24 Artery=.=Aorta
ENSG00000143847.11 PPFIA4 4.90E.10 0.36 Whole=Blood
2 rs2540953 65272362 A G 7.45E.12 0.853 0.815 0.892 ENSG00000011523.9 CEP68 7.20E.10 .0.33 Artery=.=TibialENSG00000011523.9 CEP68 3.70E.07 .0.42 Heart=.=Atrial=AppendageENSG00000011523.9 CEP68 7.70E.07 .0.31 Heart=.=Left=VentricleENSG00000011523.9 CEP68 1.50E.06 .0.18 Muscle=.=SkeletalENSG00000011523.9 CEP68 1.80E.06 .0.27 Esophagus=.=MuscularisENSG00000011523.9 CEP68 3.40E.06 .0.35 Artery=.=AortaENSG00000011523.9 CEP68 4.70E.06 .0.23 Adipose=.=Subcutaneous
2 rs2540953 65272362 A G 7.45E.12 0.853 0.815 0.892 ENSG00000115902.6 SLC1A4 4.30E.06 .0.17 Artery.Tibial
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Supplementary Table 11: wGRS analysis of 15 associated SNPs in GWAS of Japanese atrial fibrillation.AF ~ rs12044963 + rs639652 + rs17461925 + rs2540953 + rs2220427 + rs7698692 + rs1049334 + rs2296610 + rs2047036 + rs883079 + rs2106261 + rs13219206 + rs6843082 + rs60572254 + rs3853445
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1 rs639652 170612873 G A 8179 28593 0.574 0.537 6.13E-09 1.134 1.087 1.182 PRRX1 Previously reported
4 rs2220427 111714889 A G 8178 28612 0.578 0.447 1.83E-134 1.707 1.636 1.781 PITX2 Previously reported
4 rs6843082 111718067 G A 8180 28612 0.790 0.678 9.85E-127 1.842 1.751 1.939 PITX2 Previously reported
4 rs3853445 111761487 T C 8180 28612 0.718 0.661 2.42E-34 1.330 1.271 1.391 PITX2 Previously reported
6 rs13219206 122414157 C T 8180 28612 0.732 0.716 3.52E-08 1.143 1.091 1.199 GJA1-HSF2 Previously reported
7 rs1049334 116200380 C T 8179 28612 0.743 0.712 1.78E-14 1.203 1.147 1.261 CAV1 Previously reported
10 rs60572254 105324774 T C 8180 28612 0.119 0.087 2.92E-24 1.431 1.336 1.532 NEURL Previously reported
12 rs883079 114793240 T C 8180 28611 0.453 0.419 5.39E-15 1.184 1.135 1.235 TBX5 Previously reported
16 rs2106261 73051620 A G 8180 28610 0.372 0.306 5.80E-36 1.326 1.269 1.386 ZFHX3 Previously reported
1 rs12044963 112392360 A C 8177 28601 0.519 0.494 8.35E-12 1.158 1.11 1.208 KCND3 GWAS novel SNP and replicated
1 rs17461925 203026591 A G 8180 28610 0.822 0.796 2.33E-13 1.222 1.158 1.289 PPFIA4 GWAS novel SNP and replicated
2 rs2540953 65272362 G A 8180 28612 0.673 0.644 7.45E-12 1.172 1.121 1.226 SLC1A4-CEP68 GWAS novel SNP and replicated
4 rs7698692 174604104 A G 8178 28534 0.538 0.503 2.35E-10 1.145 1.098 1.195 HAND2 GWAS novel SNP and replicated
10 rs2296610 21157621 T G 8180 28610 0.145 0.122 1.14E-09 1.208 1.137 1.283 NEBL GWAS novel SNP and replicated
10 rs2047036 105477163 G A 8179 28612 0.286 0.25 1.25E-13 1.196 1.141 1.254 SH3PXD2A GWAS novel SNP and replicated
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Supplementary Note
AFGen Consortium Members
Ingrid E. Christophersen, MD, PhD,1–3 Michiel Rienstra, MD, PhD,4 Carolina Roselli, MSc,1,5,6 Xiaoyan Yin,
PhD,7,8 Bastiaan Geelhoed, PhD,4 John Barnard, PhD,9 Honghuang Lin, PhD,7,8 Dan E. Arking, PhD,10,
Albert V. Smith, PhD,11,12 Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH,13 Mark Chaffin, MSc1, Nathan R. Tucker, PhD,1,2
Molong Li, MD,2 Derek Klarin, MD,1 Nathan A Bihlmeyer, BS,14 Siew-Kee Low, PhD,15 Peter E. Weeke, MD,
PhD,16,17 Martina Müller-Nurasyid, PhD,5,18,19 J. Gustav Smith, MD, PhD,1,20 Jennifer A. Brody, BA,21
Maartje N. Niemeijer MD,22 Marcus Dörr, MD,23,24 Stella Trompet, PhD,25 Jennifer Huffman, PhD,26 Stefan
Gustafsson, PhD,27 Claudia Schurman, PhD,28,29 Marcus E. Kleber, PhD,30 Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, MD,31
Ilkka Seppälä, MD,31 Rainer Malik, PhD,32 Andrea R. V. R. Horimoto, PhD,33 Marco Perez, MD,34 Juha
Sinisalo, MD, PhD,35 Stefanie Aeschbacher, MSc,36,37 Sébastien Thériault, MD, MSc,38,39 Jie Yao, MS,40
Farid Radmanesh, MD, MPH,1,41 Stefan Weiss, PhD,24,42 Alexander Teumer, PhD,24,43 Seung Hoan Choi,
PhD,1 Lu-Chen Weng, PhD1,2 Sebastian Clauss, MD,2,18 Rajat Deo, MD, MTR,44 Daniel J. Rader, MD,44 Svati
Shah, MD, MHS,45 Albert Sun, MD,45 Jemma C. Hopewell, PhD,46 Stephanie Debette, MD, PhD,47–50
Ganesh Chauhan, PhD,47,48 Qiong Yang, PhD,51 Bradford B. Worrall, MD, MSc,52, Guillaume Paré, MD,
MSc,38,39 Yoichiro Kamatani, MD, PhD,15 Yanick P. Hagemeijer, MSc,4 Niek Verweij, PhD,4 Joylene E.
Siland, MSc,4 Michiaki Kubo, MD, PhD,53 Jonathan D. Smith, PhD,9 David R. Van Wagoner, PhD,9 Joshua C.
Bis, PhD,21 Siegfried Perz, MSc,54 Bruce M. Psaty, MD, PhD,21,55–57 Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH,13 Jared W.
Magnani, MD, MSc,7,58 Tamara B. Harris, MD, MS,59 Lenore J. Launer, PhD,59 M. Benjamin Shoemaker,
MD, MSCI,16 Sandosh Padmanabhan, MD,60 Jeffrey Haessler, MS,61 Traci M. Bartz, MS,62 Melanie
Waldenberger, PhD,19,54,63 Peter Lichtner, PhD,64 Marina Arendt, MSc,65 Jose E. Krieger, MD, PhD,33 Mika
Kähönen, MD, PhD,66 Lorenz Risch, MD, MPH,67 Alfredo J. Mansur, MD, PhD,68 Annette Peters, PhD,19,54,69
Blair H. Smith, MD,70 Lars Lind, MD, PhD,71 Stuart A. Scott, PhD,72 Yingchang Lu, MD, PHD,28,29 Erwin B.
Bottinger, MD,28,73 Jussi Hernesniemi, MD, PhD,31,74 Cecilia M. Lindgren, PhD,75 Jorge Wong, MD,76 Jie
Huang, MD, MPH,77 Markku Eskola, MD, PhD,74 Andrew P. Morris, PhD,75,78 Ian Ford, PhD,79 Alex P.
Reiner, MD, MSc,61,80 Graciela Delgado, Msc,30 Lin Y. Chen, MD, MS,81 Yii-Der Ida Chen, PhD,40 Roopinder
K. Sandhu, MD, MPH,82 Man Li, PhD,83,84 Eric Boerwinkle, PhD,85 Lewin Eisele, MD,65 Lars Lannfelt, MD,
PhD,86 Natalia Rost, MD, MPH, FAAN,1,87 Christopher D. Anderson, MD, MMSc,1,41 Kent D. Taylor, PhD,40
Archie Campbell, MA,88 Patrik K. Magnusson, PhD,89 David Porteous, PhD,88 Lynne J. Hocking, PhD,90
Efthymia Vlachopoulou, PhD,91 Nancy L. Pedersen, MA, PhD,89 Kjell Nikus, MD, PhD,74 Marju Orho-
Melander, PhD,92 Anders Hamsten, MD, PhD,93 Jan Heeringa, MD, PhD,22 Joshua C. Denny, MD,16 Jennifer
Kriebel, PhD,54,63,69 Dawood Darbar, MD,94 Christopher Newton-Cheh, MD, MPH,1,2 Christian Shaffer,
BS,16 Peter W. Macfarlane, PhD, DSc,95 Stefanie Heilmann, PhD,96,97 Peter Almgren, MSc,92 Paul L. Huang,
MD, PhD,2 Nona Sotoodehnia, MD, MPH,98 Elsayed Z. Soliman, MD, MSc, MS,99 Andre G. Uitterlinden,
PhD,100 PhD, Albert Hofman, MD, PhD,22 Oscar H. Franco, MD, PhD,22 Uwe Völker, PhD,24,42 Karl-Heinz
Jöckel, PhD,65 Moritz F. Sinner, MD, MPH,18,19 Henry J. Lin, MD,40 Xiuqing Guo, PhD,40 METASTROKE
Consortium of the ISGC, Neurology Working Group of the CHARGE Consortium, Martin Dichgans,
MD,32,101,102, Erik Ingelsson, MD, PhD,27,103 Charles Kooperberg, PhD,61 Olle Melander, MD, PhD,104 Ruth J.
F. Loos, PhD,28,29,105 Jari Laurikka, MD, PhD,106 David Conen, MD, MPH,36–38 Jonathan Rosand, MD,
MSc,1,41 Pim van der Harst, MD, PhD,4 Marja-Liisa Lokki, PhD,91 Sekar Kathiresan, MD,1 Alexandre Pereira,
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MD, PhD,107 J. Wouter Jukema, MD, PhD,25,108,109 Caroline Hayward, PhD,26 Jerome I. Rotter, MD,110
Winfried März, MD,111 Terho Lehtimäki, MD, PhD,31 Bruno H. Stricker, MD, PhD,112 Mina K. Chung, MD,
PhD,9 Stephan B. Felix, MD,23,24 Vilmundur Gudnason, MD, PhD,11,12 Alvaro Alonso, MD, PhD,113 Dan M.
Roden, MD,16 Stefan Kääb, MD, PhD,18,19 Daniel I. Chasman, PhD,1,114 Susan R. Heckbert, MD, PhD,55,56
Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM,7,58,115 Toshihiro Tanaka, MD, PhD,116,117 Kathryn L. Lunetta, PhD,7,8 Steven
A. Lubitz, MD, MPH,1,2,118 Patrick T. Ellinor, MD, PhD,1,2,118
Consortium Member Affiliations
1. Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,
Cambridge, MA, USA.
2. Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
3. Department of Medical Research, Bærum Hospital, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Norway.
4. Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen,
Groningen, The Netherlands.
5. Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for
Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
6. Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
7. NHLBI and Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA.
8. Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
9. Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Molecular
Cardiology, and Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
10. McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD, USA.
11. Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland.
12. Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykavik, Iceland.
13. Divisions of Preventive and Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
14. Predoctoral Training Program in Human Genetics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic
Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
15. Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama,
Japan.
16. Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
17. The Heart Centre, Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet,
Copenhagen, Denmark.
18. Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich,
Germany.
19. DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site: Munich Heart Alliance,
Munich, Germany.
20. Molecular Epidemiology and Cardiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
21. Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA, USA.
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22. Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the
Netherlands.
23. Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
24. DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site: Greifswald, Germany.
25. Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.
26. MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of
Edinburgh, UK.
27. Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory,
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
28. The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
29. The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, Icahn School of Medicine at
Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
30. Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany.
31. Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and University of Tampere School of
Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
32. Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-
Maximilians University, München, Germany.
33. Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao
Paulo, Brazil.
34. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
35. Heart and Lung Center HUS, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
36. University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
37. Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, Switzerland.
38. Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Canada.
39. Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
40. Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics,
LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.
41. Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
42. Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine and Ernst-
Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
43. Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
44. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at
the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
45. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham,
NC, USA.
46. CTSU - Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
47. Inserm Center U1219 (Bordeaux Population Health Centre), Bordeaux, France.
48. University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
49. Department of Neurology, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France.
50. Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
51. Biostatistics Department, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
52. University of Virginia Health System, Departments of Neurology and Public Health Science,
Charlottesville, VA, USA.
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53. RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.
54. Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for
Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
55. Department of Epidemiology and Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
56. Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA, USA.
57. Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
58. Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
59. Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda,
MD, USA.
60. Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre,
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
61. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
62. Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine and Biostatistics, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
63. Research unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research
Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
64. Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for
Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
65. Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, University Hospital, University
Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
66. Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital and University of Tampere
School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
67. University Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland and labormedizinisches
zentrum Dr. Risch, Schaan, Liechtenstein.
68. Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
69. German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany.
70. Division of Population Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.
71. Department of Medical Sciences, Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala,
Sweden.
72. Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences , Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New
York, NY, USA.
73. Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
74. Department of Cardiology, Heart Hospital, Tampere University Hospital and University of
Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
75. Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
76. Division of Cardiology, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada.
77. Boston VA Research Institute, Inc., Boston, MA, USA.
78. Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
79. Robertson Center for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
80. Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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81. Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School,
Minneapolis, MN, USA.
82. Division of Cardiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
83. Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
84. Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of
Utah, UT, USA.
85. Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
86. Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Geriatrics, Uppsala University, Uppsala,
Sweden.
87. Acute Stroke Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
88. Generation Scotland, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and
Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK.
89. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm,
Sweden.
90. Musculoskeletal Research Programme, Division of Applied Medicine, University of Aberdeen,
Aberdeen, UK.
91. Transplantation Laboratory, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
92. Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
93. Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics Group, Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of
Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
94. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.
95. Institute of Health and Wellbeing, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of
Glasgow, UK.
96. Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Germany.
97. Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Research Center, University of Bonn, Germany.
98. Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA,
USA.
99. Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center (EPICARE), Wake Forest School of Medicine,
Winston Salem, NC, USA.
100. Department of Epidemiology and Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center
Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
101. Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), München, Germany.
102. German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Munich, Germany.
103. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of
Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
104. Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
105. The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
New York, NY, USA.
106. Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Heart Hospital, Tampere University Hospital and
University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
107. Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao
Paulo, Brazil and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
108. Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
109. Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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110. Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Departments of Pediatrics and
Medicine, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.
111. Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz,
Graz, Austria and Synlab Academy, Synlab Services GmbH, Mannheim, Germany.
112. Department of Epidemiology and Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center
Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Inspectorate of Health Care, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
113. Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA,
USA.
114. Divisions of Preventive Medicine and Genetics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
115. Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
116. Laboratory for Cardiovascular Diseases, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences,
Yokohama, Japan.
117. Department of Human Genetics and Disease Diversity, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.
118. Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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