Author information:
(1)Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical 
School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
(2)Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cardiology Division, 
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
(3)Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, 
02142, USA.
(4)Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical 
School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
(5)Department of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Yale Medical School, 
Yale University, New Haven, MA, 06510, USA.
(6)Division of Cardiology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Parma, 
43121, Italy.
(7)Associazione per lo Studio Della Trombosi in Cardiologia, Pavia, 27100, 
Italy.
(8)Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical 
Center, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA.
(9)Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, Deutsches 
Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung, München, 80333, Germany.
(10)University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, K1Y4W7, Canada.
(11)Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, 
University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 2JD, UK.
(12)Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 
2JD, UK.
(13)Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, Hospital del Mar Research 
Institute, Barcelona, 08003, Spain.
(14)CIBER Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Barcelona, 28029, Spain.
(15)Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Vic-Central de Cataluña, Barcelona, 
VIC, 08500, Spain.
(16)Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, and NIHR 
Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
(17)The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of 
Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, 10029, NY, USA.
(18)Institute for Integrative and Experimental Genomics, University of Lübeck, 
Lübeck, 23562, Germany.
(19)Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cardiovascular Epidemiology 
Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK.
(20)Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK.
(21)National Institute of Health Research Blood and Transplant; Research Unit in 
Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, UK.
(22)Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 
Boston, 02115, USA.
(23)Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 
37235, USA.
(24)Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, 
New Haven, CT, 06510, USA.
(25)Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, 
USA.
(26)Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New 
Haven, CT, 06510, USA.
(27)Department of Biomedical & Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and the 
Health Informatics, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of 
Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, 64110, USA.
(28)Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, 
Taichung, 40705, Taiwan.
(29)The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, LABioMed 
and Department of Pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 90095, 
USA.
(30)Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology 
and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, WA, USA.
(31)Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health 
Research Institute, 98101, Seattle, WA, USA.
(32)Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia School of 
Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA.
(33)Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 
Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
(34)Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, 74800, Pakistan.
(35)Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, 
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
(36)Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical 
School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. skathiresan1@mgh.harvard.edu.
(37)Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cardiology Division, 
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. skathiresan1@mgh.harvard.edu.
(38)Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, 
02142, USA. skathiresan1@mgh.harvard.edu.