@article {10823, title = {Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries.}, journal = {PLoS One}, volume = {13}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {e0198166}, abstract = {

Heavy alcohol consumption is an established risk factor for hypertension; the mechanism by which alcohol consumption impact blood pressure (BP) regulation remains unknown. We hypothesized that a genome-wide association study accounting for gene-alcohol consumption interaction for BP might identify additional BP loci and contribute to the understanding of alcohol-related BP regulation. We conducted a large two-stage investigation incorporating joint testing of main genetic effects and single nucleotide variant (SNV)-alcohol consumption interactions. In Stage 1, genome-wide discovery meta-analyses in ≈131K individuals across several ancestry groups yielded 3,514 SNVs (245 loci) with suggestive evidence of association (P < 1.0 x 10-5). In Stage 2, these SNVs were tested for independent external replication in ≈440K individuals across multiple ancestries. We identified and replicated (at Bonferroni correction threshold) five novel BP loci (380 SNVs in 21 genes) and 49 previously reported BP loci (2,159 SNVs in 109 genes) in European ancestry, and in multi-ancestry meta-analyses (P < 5.0 x 10-8). For African ancestry samples, we detected 18 potentially novel BP loci (P < 5.0 x 10-8) in Stage 1 that warrant further replication. Additionally, correlated meta-analysis identified eight novel BP loci (11 genes). Several genes in these loci (e.g., PINX1, GATA4, BLK, FTO and GABBR2) have been previously reported to be associated with alcohol consumption. These findings provide insights into the role of alcohol consumption in the genetic architecture of hypertension.

}, keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Alcohol Drinking, Blood Pressure, Cohort Studies, Continental Population Groups, Female, Gene-Environment Interaction, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Hypertension, Male, Middle Aged, Pedigree, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Young Adult}, issn = {1932-6203}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0198166}, author = {Feitosa, Mary F and Kraja, Aldi T and Chasman, Daniel I and Sung, Yun J and Winkler, Thomas W and Ntalla, Ioanna and Guo, Xiuqing and Franceschini, Nora and Cheng, Ching-Yu and Sim, Xueling and Vojinovic, Dina and Marten, Jonathan and Musani, Solomon K and Li, Changwei and Bentley, Amy R and Brown, Michael R and Schwander, Karen and Richard, Melissa A and Noordam, Raymond and Aschard, Hugues and Bartz, Traci M and Bielak, Lawrence F and Dorajoo, Rajkumar and Fisher, Virginia and Hartwig, Fernando P and Horimoto, Andrea R V R and Lohman, Kurt K and Manning, Alisa K and Rankinen, Tuomo and Smith, Albert V and Tajuddin, Salman M and Wojczynski, Mary K and Alver, Maris and Boissel, Mathilde and Cai, Qiuyin and Campbell, Archie and Chai, Jin Fang and Chen, Xu and Divers, Jasmin and Gao, Chuan and Goel, Anuj and Hagemeijer, Yanick and Harris, Sarah E and He, Meian and Hsu, Fang-Chi and Jackson, Anne U and K{\"a}h{\"o}nen, Mika and Kasturiratne, Anuradhani and Komulainen, Pirjo and Kuhnel, Brigitte and Laguzzi, Federica and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and Matoba, Nana and Nolte, Ilja M and Padmanabhan, Sandosh and Riaz, Muhammad and Rueedi, Rico and Robino, Antonietta and Said, M Abdullah and Scott, Robert A and Sofer, Tamar and Stan{\v c}{\'a}kov{\'a}, Alena and Takeuchi, Fumihiko and Tayo, Bamidele O and van der Most, Peter J and Varga, Tibor V and Vitart, Veronique and Wang, Yajuan and Ware, Erin B and Warren, Helen R and Weiss, Stefan and Wen, Wanqing and Yanek, Lisa R and Zhang, Weihua and Zhao, Jing Hua and Afaq, Saima and Amin, Najaf and Amini, Marzyeh and Arking, Dan E and Aung, Tin and Boerwinkle, Eric and Borecki, Ingrid and Broeckel, Ulrich and Brown, Morris and Brumat, Marco and Burke, Gregory L and Canouil, Micka{\"e}l and Chakravarti, Aravinda and Charumathi, Sabanayagam and Ida Chen, Yii-Der and Connell, John M and Correa, Adolfo and de Las Fuentes, Lisa and de Mutsert, Ren{\'e}e and de Silva, H Janaka and Deng, Xuan and Ding, Jingzhong and Duan, Qing and Eaton, Charles B and Ehret, Georg and Eppinga, Ruben N and Evangelou, Evangelos and Faul, Jessica D and Felix, Stephan B and Forouhi, Nita G and Forrester, Terrence and Franco, Oscar H and Friedlander, Yechiel and Gandin, Ilaria and Gao, He and Ghanbari, Mohsen and Gigante, Bruna and Gu, C Charles and Gu, Dongfeng and Hagenaars, Saskia P and Hallmans, Goran and Harris, Tamara B and He, Jiang and Heikkinen, Sami and Heng, Chew-Kiat and Hirata, Makoto and Howard, Barbara V and Ikram, M Arfan and John, Ulrich and Katsuya, Tomohiro and Khor, Chiea Chuen and Kilpel{\"a}inen, Tuomas O and Koh, Woon-Puay and Krieger, Jose E and Kritchevsky, Stephen B and Kubo, Michiaki and Kuusisto, Johanna and Lakka, Timo A and Langefeld, Carl D and Langenberg, Claudia and Launer, Lenore J and Lehne, Benjamin and Lewis, Cora E and Li, Yize and Lin, Shiow and Liu, Jianjun and Liu, Jingmin and Loh, Marie and Louie, Tin and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and McKenzie, Colin A and Meitinger, Thomas and Metspalu, Andres and Milaneschi, Yuri and Milani, Lili and Mohlke, Karen L and Momozawa, Yukihide and Nalls, Mike A and Nelson, Christopher P and Sotoodehnia, Nona and Norris, Jill M and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Jeff R and Palmer, Nicholette D and Perls, Thomas and Pedersen, Nancy L and Peters, Annette and Peyser, Patricia A and Poulter, Neil and Raffel, Leslie J and Raitakari, Olli T and Roll, Kathryn and Rose, Lynda M and Rosendaal, Frits R and Rotter, Jerome I and Schmidt, Carsten O and Schreiner, Pamela J and Schupf, Nicole and Scott, William R and Sever, Peter S and Shi, Yuan and Sidney, Stephen and Sims, Mario and Sitlani, Colleen M and Smith, Jennifer A and Snieder, Harold and Starr, John M and Strauch, Konstantin and Stringham, Heather M and Tan, Nicholas Y Q and Tang, Hua and Taylor, Kent D and Teo, Yik Ying and Tham, Yih Chung and Turner, Stephen T and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and Vollenweider, Peter and Waldenberger, Melanie and Wang, Lihua and Wang, Ya Xing and Wei, Wen Bin and Williams, Christine and Yao, Jie and Yu, Caizheng and Yuan, Jian-Min and Zhao, Wei and Zonderman, Alan B and Becker, Diane M and Boehnke, Michael and Bowden, Donald W and Chambers, John C and Deary, Ian J and Esko, T{\~o}nu and Farrall, Martin and Franks, Paul W and Freedman, Barry I and Froguel, Philippe and Gasparini, Paolo and Gieger, Christian and Jonas, Jost Bruno and Kamatani, Yoichiro and Kato, Norihiro and Kooner, Jaspal S and Kutalik, Zolt{\'a}n and Laakso, Markku and Laurie, Cathy C and Leander, Karin and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Study, Lifelines Cohort and Magnusson, Patrik K E and Oldehinkel, Albertine J and Penninx, Brenda W J H and Polasek, Ozren and Porteous, David J and Rauramaa, Rainer and Samani, Nilesh J and Scott, James and Shu, Xiao-Ou and van der Harst, Pim and Wagenknecht, Lynne E and Wareham, Nicholas J and Watkins, Hugh and Weir, David R and Wickremasinghe, Ananda R and Wu, Tangchun and Zheng, Wei and Bouchard, Claude and Christensen, Kaare and Evans, Michele K and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Horta, Bernardo L and Kardia, Sharon L R and Liu, Yongmei and Pereira, Alexandre C and Psaty, Bruce M and Ridker, Paul M and van Dam, Rob M and Gauderman, W James and Zhu, Xiaofeng and Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O and Fornage, Myriam and Rotimi, Charles N and Cupples, L Adrienne and Kelly, Tanika N and Fox, Ervin R and Hayward, Caroline and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Tai, E Shyong and Wong, Tien Yin and Kooperberg, Charles and Palmas, Walter and Rice, Kenneth and Morrison, Alanna C and Elliott, Paul and Caulfield, Mark J and Munroe, Patricia B and Rao, Dabeeru C and Province, Michael A and Levy, Daniel} } @article {10512, title = {Novel Blood Pressure Locus and Gene Discovery Using Genome-Wide Association Study and Expression Data Sets From Blood and the Kidney.}, journal = {Hypertension}, year = {2017}, month = {2017 Jul 24}, abstract = {

Elevated blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and has a substantial genetic contribution. Genetic variation influencing blood pressure has the potential to identify new pharmacological targets for the treatment of hypertension. To discover additional novel blood pressure loci, we used 1000 Genomes Project-based imputation in 150 134 European ancestry individuals and sought significant evidence for independent replication in a further 228 245 individuals. We report 6 new signals of association in or near , , , , , and , and provide new replication evidence for a further 2 signals in and Combining large whole-blood gene expression resources totaling 12 607 individuals, we investigated all novel and previously reported signals and identified 48 genes with evidence for involvement in blood pressure regulation that are significant in multiple resources. Three novel kidney-specific signals were also detected. These robustly implicated genes may provide new leads for therapeutic innovation.

}, issn = {1524-4563}, doi = {10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.117.09438}, author = {Wain, Louise V and Vaez, Ahmad and Jansen, Rick and Joehanes, Roby and van der Most, Peter J and Erzurumluoglu, A Mesut and O{\textquoteright}Reilly, Paul F and Cabrera, Claudia P and Warren, Helen R and Rose, Lynda M and Verwoert, Germaine C and Hottenga, Jouke-Jan and Strawbridge, Rona J and Esko, T{\~o}nu and Arking, Dan E and Hwang, Shih-Jen and Guo, Xiuqing and Kutalik, Zolt{\'a}n and Trompet, Stella and Shrine, Nick and Teumer, Alexander and Ried, Janina S and Bis, Joshua C and Smith, Albert V and Amin, Najaf and Nolte, Ilja M and Lyytik{\"a}inen, Leo-Pekka and Mahajan, Anubha and Wareham, Nicholas J and Hofer, Edith and Joshi, Peter K and Kristiansson, Kati and Traglia, Michela and Havulinna, Aki S and Goel, Anuj and Nalls, Mike A and S{\~o}ber, Siim and Vuckovic, Dragana and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and del Greco M, Fabiola and Ayers, Kristin L and Marrugat, Jaume and Ruggiero, Daniela and Lopez, Lorna M and Niiranen, Teemu and Enroth, Stefan and Jackson, Anne U and Nelson, Christopher P and Huffman, Jennifer E and Zhang, Weihua and Marten, Jonathan and Gandin, Ilaria and Harris, Sarah E and Zemunik, Tatijana and Lu, Yingchang and Evangelou, Evangelos and Shah, Nabi and de Borst, Martin H and Mangino, Massimo and Prins, Bram P and Campbell, Archie and Li-Gao, Ruifang and Chauhan, Ganesh and Oldmeadow, Christopher and Abecasis, Goncalo and Abedi, Maryam and Barbieri, Caterina M and Barnes, Michael R and Batini, Chiara and Beilby, John and Blake, Tineka and Boehnke, Michael and Bottinger, Erwin P and Braund, Peter S and Brown, Morris and Brumat, Marco and Campbell, Harry and Chambers, John C and Cocca, Massimiliano and Collins, Francis and Connell, John and Cordell, Heather J and Damman, Jeffrey J and Davies, Gail and de Geus, Eco J and de Mutsert, Ren{\'e}e and Deelen, Joris and Demirkale, Yusuf and Doney, Alex S F and D{\"o}rr, Marcus and Farrall, Martin and Ferreira, Teresa and Fr{\r a}nberg, Mattias and Gao, He and Giedraitis, Vilmantas and Gieger, Christian and Giulianini, Franco and Gow, Alan J and Hamsten, Anders and Harris, Tamara B and Hofman, Albert and Holliday, Elizabeth G and Hui, Jennie and J{\"a}rvelin, Marjo-Riitta and Johansson, {\r A}sa and Johnson, Andrew D and Jousilahti, Pekka and Jula, Antti and K{\"a}h{\"o}nen, Mika and Kathiresan, Sekar and Khaw, Kay-Tee and Kolcic, Ivana and Koskinen, Seppo and Langenberg, Claudia and Larson, Marty and Launer, Lenore J and Lehne, Benjamin and Liewald, David C M and Lin, Li and Lind, Lars and Mach, Fran{\c c}ois and Mamasoula, Chrysovalanto and Menni, Cristina and Mifsud, Borbala and Milaneschi, Yuri and Morgan, Anna and Morris, Andrew D and Morrison, Alanna C and Munson, Peter J and Nandakumar, Priyanka and Nguyen, Quang Tri and Nutile, Teresa and Oldehinkel, Albertine J and Oostra, Ben A and Org, Elin and Padmanabhan, Sandosh and Palotie, Aarno and Par{\'e}, Guillaume and Pattie, Alison and Penninx, Brenda W J H and Poulter, Neil and Pramstaller, Peter P and Raitakari, Olli T and Ren, Meixia and Rice, Kenneth and Ridker, Paul M and Riese, Harri{\"e}tte and Ripatti, Samuli and Robino, Antonietta and Rotter, Jerome I and Rudan, Igor and Saba, Yasaman and Saint Pierre, Aude and Sala, Cinzia F and Sarin, Antti-Pekka and Schmidt, Reinhold and Scott, Rodney and Seelen, Marc A and Shields, Denis C and Siscovick, David and Sorice, Rossella and Stanton, Alice and Stott, David J and Sundstr{\"o}m, Johan and Swertz, Morris and Taylor, Kent D and Thom, Simon and Tzoulaki, Ioanna and Tzourio, Christophe and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and V{\"o}lker, Uwe and Vollenweider, Peter and Wild, Sarah and Willemsen, Gonneke and Wright, Alan F and Yao, Jie and Th{\'e}riault, S{\'e}bastien and Conen, David and Attia, John and Sever, Peter and Debette, St{\'e}phanie and Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O and Zeggini, Eleftheria and Spector, Tim D and van der Harst, Pim and Palmer, Colin N A and Vergnaud, Anne-Claire and Loos, Ruth J F and Polasek, Ozren and Starr, John M and Girotto, Giorgia and Hayward, Caroline and Kooner, Jaspal S and Lindgren, Cecila M and Vitart, Veronique and Samani, Nilesh J and Tuomilehto, Jaakko and Gyllensten, Ulf and Knekt, Paul and Deary, Ian J and Ciullo, Marina and Elosua, Roberto and Keavney, Bernard D and Hicks, Andrew A and Scott, Robert A and Gasparini, Paolo and Laan, Maris and Liu, Yongmei and Watkins, Hugh and Hartman, Catharina A and Salomaa, Veikko and Toniolo, Daniela and Perola, Markus and Wilson, James F and Schmidt, Helena and Zhao, Jing Hua and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Psaty, Bruce M and Peters, Annette and Rettig, Rainer and James, Alan and Jukema, J Wouter and Strachan, David P and Palmas, Walter and Metspalu, Andres and Ingelsson, Erik and Boomsma, Dorret I and Franco, Oscar H and Bochud, Murielle and Newton-Cheh, Christopher and Munroe, Patricia B and Elliott, Paul and Chasman, Daniel I and Chakravarti, Aravinda and Knight, Joanne and Morris, Andrew P and Levy, Daniel and Tobin, Martin D and Snieder, Harold and Caulfield, Mark J and Ehret, Georg B} } @article {8525, title = {Non-additive genome-wide association scan reveals a new gene associated with habitual coffee consumption.}, journal = {Sci Rep}, volume = {6}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {31590}, abstract = {

Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages world-wide and one of the primary sources of caffeine intake. Given its important health and economic impact, the underlying genetics of its consumption has been widely studied. Despite these efforts, much has still to be uncovered. In particular, the use of non-additive genetic models may uncover new information about the genetic variants driving coffee consumption. We have conducted a genome-wide association study in two Italian populations using additive, recessive and dominant models for analysis. This has uncovered a significant association in the PDSS2 gene under the recessive model that has been replicated in an independent cohort from the Netherlands (ERF). The identified gene has been shown to negatively regulate the expression of the caffeine metabolism genes and can thus be linked to coffee consumption. Further bioinformatics analysis of eQTL and histone marks from Roadmap data has evidenced a possible role of the identified SNPs in regulating PDSS2 gene expression through enhancers present in its intron. Our results highlight a novel gene which regulates coffee consumption by regulating the expression of the genes linked to caffeine metabolism. Further studies will be needed to clarify the biological mechanism which links PDSS2 and coffee consumption.

}, issn = {2045-2322}, doi = {10.1038/srep31590}, author = {Pirastu, Nicola and Kooyman, Maarten and Robino, Antonietta and van der Spek, Ashley and Navarini, Luciano and Amin, Najaf and Karssen, Lennart C and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Gasparini, Paolo} } @article {7692, title = {New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution.}, journal = {Nature}, volume = {518}, year = {2015}, month = {2015 Feb 12}, pages = {187-96}, abstract = {

Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of body fat distribution and its molecular links to cardiometabolic traits, here we conduct genome-wide association meta-analyses of traits related to waist and hip circumferences in up to 224,459 individuals. We identify 49 loci (33 new) associated with waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index (BMI), and an additional 19 loci newly associated with related waist and hip circumference measures (P~<~5~{\texttimes}~10(-8)). In total, 20 of the 49 waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for BMI loci show significant sexual dimorphism, 19 of which display a stronger effect in women. The identified loci were enriched for genes expressed in adipose tissue and for putative regulatory elements in adipocytes. Pathway analyses implicated adipogenesis, angiogenesis, transcriptional regulation and insulin resistance as processes affecting fat distribution, providing insight into potential pathophysiological mechanisms.

}, keywords = {Adipocytes, Adipogenesis, Adipose Tissue, Age Factors, Body Fat Distribution, Body Mass Index, Continental Population Groups, Epigenesis, Genetic, Europe, Female, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Insulin, Insulin Resistance, Male, Models, Biological, Neovascularization, Physiologic, Obesity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Sex Characteristics, Transcription, Genetic, Waist-Hip Ratio}, issn = {1476-4687}, doi = {10.1038/nature14132}, author = {Shungin, Dmitry and Winkler, Thomas W and Croteau-Chonka, Damien C and Ferreira, Teresa and Locke, Adam E and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Strawbridge, Rona J and Pers, Tune H and Fischer, Krista and Justice, Anne E and Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie and Wu, Joseph M W and Buchkovich, Martin L and Heard-Costa, Nancy L and Roman, Tamara S and Drong, Alexander W and Song, Ci and Gustafsson, Stefan and Day, Felix R and Esko, T{\~o}nu and Fall, Tove and Kutalik, Zolt{\'a}n and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and Randall, Joshua C and Scherag, Andr{\'e} and Vedantam, Sailaja and Wood, Andrew R and Chen, Jin and Fehrmann, Rudolf and Karjalainen, Juha and Kahali, Bratati and Liu, Ching-Ti and Schmidt, Ellen M and Absher, Devin and Amin, Najaf and Anderson, Denise and Beekman, Marian and Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L and Buyske, Steven and Demirkan, Ayse and Ehret, Georg B and Feitosa, Mary F and Goel, Anuj and Jackson, Anne U and Johnson, Toby and Kleber, Marcus E and Kristiansson, Kati and Mangino, Massimo and Mateo Leach, Irene and Medina-Gomez, Carolina and Palmer, Cameron D and Pasko, Dorota and Pechlivanis, Sonali and Peters, Marjolein J and Prokopenko, Inga and Stan{\v c}{\'a}kov{\'a}, Alena and Ju Sung, Yun and Tanaka, Toshiko and Teumer, Alexander and Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V and Yengo, Loic and Zhang, Weihua and Albrecht, Eva and Arnl{\"o}v, Johan and Arscott, Gillian M and Bandinelli, Stefania and Barrett, Amy and Bellis, Claire and Bennett, Amanda J and Berne, Christian and Bl{\"u}her, Matthias and B{\"o}hringer, Stefan and Bonnet, Fabrice and B{\"o}ttcher, Yvonne and Bruinenberg, Marcel and Carba, Delia B and Caspersen, Ida H and Clarke, Robert and Daw, E Warwick and Deelen, Joris and Deelman, Ewa and Delgado, Graciela and Doney, Alex S F and Eklund, Niina and Erdos, Michael R and Estrada, Karol and Eury, Elodie and Friedrich, Nele and Garcia, Melissa E and Giedraitis, Vilmantas and Gigante, Bruna and Go, Alan S and Golay, Alain and Grallert, Harald and Grammer, Tanja B and Gr{\"a}{\ss}ler, J{\"u}rgen and Grewal, Jagvir and Groves, Christopher J and Haller, Toomas and Hallmans, Goran and Hartman, Catharina A and Hassinen, Maija and Hayward, Caroline and Heikkil{\"a}, Kauko and Herzig, Karl-Heinz and Helmer, Quinta and Hillege, Hans L and Holmen, Oddgeir and Hunt, Steven C and Isaacs, Aaron and Ittermann, Till and James, Alan L and Johansson, Ingegerd and Juliusdottir, Thorhildur and Kalafati, Ioanna-Panagiota and Kinnunen, Leena and Koenig, Wolfgang and Kooner, Ishminder K and Kratzer, Wolfgang and Lamina, Claudia and Leander, Karin and Lee, Nanette R and Lichtner, Peter and Lind, Lars and Lindstr{\"o}m, Jaana and Lobbens, St{\'e}phane and Lorentzon, Mattias and Mach, Fran{\c c}ois and Magnusson, Patrik K E and Mahajan, Anubha and McArdle, Wendy L and Menni, Cristina and Merger, Sigrun and Mihailov, Evelin and Milani, Lili and Mills, Rebecca and Moayyeri, Alireza and Monda, Keri L and Mooijaart, Simon P and M{\"u}hleisen, Thomas W and Mulas, Antonella and M{\"u}ller, Gabriele and M{\"u}ller-Nurasyid, Martina and Nagaraja, Ramaiah and Nalls, Michael A and Narisu, Narisu and Glorioso, Nicola and Nolte, Ilja M and Olden, Matthias and Rayner, Nigel W and Renstrom, Frida and Ried, Janina S and Robertson, Neil R and Rose, Lynda M and Sanna, Serena and Scharnagl, Hubert and Scholtens, Salome and Sennblad, Bengt and Seufferlein, Thomas and Sitlani, Colleen M and Vernon Smith, Albert and Stirrups, Kathleen and Stringham, Heather M and Sundstr{\"o}m, Johan and Swertz, Morris A and Swift, Amy J and Syv{\"a}nen, Ann-Christine and Tayo, Bamidele O and Thorand, Barbara and Thorleifsson, Gudmar and Tomaschitz, Andreas and Troffa, Chiara and van Oort, Floor V A and Verweij, Niek and Vonk, Judith M and Waite, Lindsay L and Wennauer, Roman and Wilsgaard, Tom and Wojczynski, Mary K and Wong, Andrew and Zhang, Qunyuan and Hua Zhao, Jing and Brennan, Eoin P and Choi, Murim and Eriksson, Per and Folkersen, Lasse and Franco-Cereceda, Anders and Gharavi, Ali G and Hedman, {\r A}sa K and Hivert, Marie-France and Huang, Jinyan and Kanoni, Stavroula and Karpe, Fredrik and Keildson, Sarah and Kiryluk, Krzysztof and Liang, Liming and Lifton, Richard P and Ma, Baoshan and McKnight, Amy J and McPherson, Ruth and Metspalu, Andres and Min, Josine L and Moffatt, Miriam F and Montgomery, Grant W and Murabito, Joanne M and Nicholson, George and Nyholt, Dale R and Olsson, Christian and Perry, John R B and Reinmaa, Eva and Salem, Rany M and Sandholm, Niina and Schadt, Eric E and Scott, Robert A and Stolk, Lisette and Vallejo, Edgar E and Westra, Harm-Jan and Zondervan, Krina T and Amouyel, Philippe and Arveiler, Dominique and Bakker, Stephan J L and Beilby, John and Bergman, Richard N and Blangero, John and Brown, Morris J and Burnier, Michel and Campbell, Harry and Chakravarti, Aravinda and Chines, Peter S and Claudi-Boehm, Simone and Collins, Francis S and Crawford, Dana C and Danesh, John and de Faire, Ulf and de Geus, Eco J C and D{\"o}rr, Marcus and Erbel, Raimund and Eriksson, Johan G and Farrall, Martin and Ferrannini, Ele and Ferri{\`e}res, Jean and Forouhi, Nita G and Forrester, Terrence and Franco, Oscar H and Gansevoort, Ron T and Gieger, Christian and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Haiman, Christopher A and Harris, Tamara B and Hattersley, Andrew T and Heli{\"o}vaara, Markku and Hicks, Andrew A and Hingorani, Aroon D and Hoffmann, Wolfgang and Hofman, Albert and Homuth, Georg and Humphries, Steve E and Hypp{\"o}nen, Elina and Illig, Thomas and J{\"a}rvelin, Marjo-Riitta and Johansen, Berit and Jousilahti, Pekka and Jula, Antti M and Kaprio, Jaakko and Kee, Frank and Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka M and Kooner, Jaspal S and Kooperberg, Charles and Kovacs, Peter and Kraja, Aldi T and Kumari, Meena and Kuulasmaa, Kari and Kuusisto, Johanna and Lakka, Timo A and Langenberg, Claudia and Le Marchand, Loic and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Lyssenko, Valeriya and M{\"a}nnist{\"o}, Satu and Marette, Andr{\'e} and Matise, Tara C and McKenzie, Colin A and McKnight, Barbara and Musk, Arthur W and M{\"o}hlenkamp, Stefan and Morris, Andrew D and Nelis, Mari and Ohlsson, Claes and Oldehinkel, Albertine J and Ong, Ken K and Palmer, Lyle J and Penninx, Brenda W and Peters, Annette and Pramstaller, Peter P and Raitakari, Olli T and Rankinen, Tuomo and Rao, D C and Rice, Treva K and Ridker, Paul M and Ritchie, Marylyn D and Rudan, Igor and Salomaa, Veikko and Samani, Nilesh J and Saramies, Jouko and Sarzynski, Mark A and Schwarz, Peter E H and Shuldiner, Alan R and Staessen, Jan A and Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur and Stolk, Ronald P and Strauch, Konstantin and T{\"o}njes, Anke and Tremblay, Angelo and Tremoli, Elena and Vohl, Marie-Claude and V{\"o}lker, Uwe and Vollenweider, Peter and Wilson, James F and Witteman, Jacqueline C and Adair, Linda S and Bochud, Murielle and Boehm, Bernhard O and Bornstein, Stefan R and Bouchard, Claude and Cauchi, St{\'e}phane and Caulfield, Mark J and Chambers, John C and Chasman, Daniel I and Cooper, Richard S and Dedoussis, George and Ferrucci, Luigi and Froguel, Philippe and Grabe, Hans-J{\"o}rgen and Hamsten, Anders and Hui, Jennie and Hveem, Kristian and J{\"o}ckel, Karl-Heinz and Kivimaki, Mika and Kuh, Diana and Laakso, Markku and Liu, Yongmei and M{\"a}rz, Winfried and Munroe, Patricia B and Nj{\o}lstad, Inger and Oostra, Ben A and Palmer, Colin N A and Pedersen, Nancy L and Perola, Markus and P{\'e}russe, Louis and Peters, Ulrike and Power, Chris and Quertermous, Thomas and Rauramaa, Rainer and Rivadeneira, Fernando and Saaristo, Timo E and Saleheen, Danish and Sinisalo, Juha and Slagboom, P Eline and Snieder, Harold and Spector, Tim D and Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur and Stumvoll, Michael and Tuomilehto, Jaakko and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and Uusitupa, Matti and van der Harst, Pim and Veronesi, Giovanni and Walker, Mark and Wareham, Nicholas J and Watkins, Hugh and Wichmann, H-Erich and Abecasis, Goncalo R and Assimes, Themistocles L and Berndt, Sonja I and Boehnke, Michael and Borecki, Ingrid B and Deloukas, Panos and Franke, Lude and Frayling, Timothy M and Groop, Leif C and Hunter, David J and Kaplan, Robert C and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Jeffrey R and Qi, Lu and Schlessinger, David and Strachan, David P and Stefansson, Kari and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Willer, Cristen J and Visscher, Peter M and Yang, Jian and Hirschhorn, Joel N and Zillikens, M Carola and McCarthy, Mark I and Speliotes, Elizabeth K and North, Kari E and Fox, Caroline S and Barroso, In{\^e}s and Franks, Paul W and Ingelsson, Erik and Heid, Iris M and Loos, Ruth J F and Cupples, L Adrienne and Morris, Andrew P and Lindgren, Cecilia M and Mohlke, Karen L} }