About the Authors
- Enrico Petretto
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Contributed equally to this work with: Enrico Petretto, Leonardo Bottolo
Affiliations Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Leonardo Bottolo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Enrico Petretto, Leonardo Bottolo
Affiliations Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Sarah R. Langley
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Matthias Heinig
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Affiliation Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
- Chris McDermott-Roe
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Rizwan Sarwar
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Michal Pravenec
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Affiliations Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences and Centre for Applied Genomics, Prague, Czech Republic, Charles University in Prague, Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics of the First Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
- Norbert Hübner
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Affiliation Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
- Timothy J. Aitman
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Affiliations Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Section of Molecular Genetics and Rheumatology, Division and Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Stuart A. Cook
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Affiliations Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Sylvia Richardson
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* E-mail: sylvia.richardson@imperial.ac.uk
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Designed the study: EP LB. Developed the code for the SBR and SBMR analyses: LB. Performed all statistical analyses: EP LB SRL. Performed all PCR based experiments: CMR RS SAC. Contributed reagents and materials for the study: MH MP NH TJA SAC. Wrote the paper: EP LB SR.