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  1. Elizabeth K Speliotes, Cristen J Willer, Sonja I Berndt, Keri L Monda, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Michael Boehnke, Kari Stefansson, Kari E North, Mark I McCarthy, Joel N Hirschhorn, Erik Ingelsson and Ruth J F Loos: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Metabolism Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Elizabeth K Speliotes, Sailaja Vedantam, Candace Guiducci, Brian Thomson & Joel N Hirschhorn
  2. Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Elizabeth K Speliotes & Lee M Kaplan
  3. Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    Cristen J Willer, Anne U Jackson, Heather M Stringham, Robert J Weyant, Ryan Welch, Laura J Scott, Elizabeth Jewell, Tanya M Teslovich, Gonçalo R Abecasis & Michael Boehnke
  4. Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Sonja I Berndt, Ju-Hyun Park, Jianxin Shi, Stephen J Chanock & Nilanjan Chatterjee
  5. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Keri L Monda & Kari E North
  6. deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Gudmar Thorleifsson, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, G Bragi Walters, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir & Kari Stefansson
  7. Genetics of Complex Traits, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
    Hana Lango Allen, Michael N Weedon, Andrew R Wood, John R B Perry, Andrew T Hattersley & Timothy M Frayling
  8. Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Cecilia M Lindgren, Reedik Mägi, Joshua C Randall, Teresa Ferreira, Inga Prokopenko, Anuj Goel, Andrew P Morris, Nigel W Rayner, Neil R Robertson, Hugh Watkins & Mark I McCarthy
  9. Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Cecilia M Lindgren, Inga Prokopenko, Amanda J Bennett, Christopher J Groves, Neelam Hassanali, Matt J Neville, Nigel W Rayner, Neil R Robertson, Fredrik Karpe & Mark I McCarthy
  10. Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
    Jian'an Luan, Tuomas O Kilpeläinen, Jing Hua Zhao, Shengxu Li, Ken K Ong, Manjinder S Sandhu, Nicholas J Wareham & Ruth J F Loos
  11. Divisions of Genetics and Endocrinology and Program in Genomics, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Sailaja Vedantam & Joel N Hirschhorn
  12. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Regensburg University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
    Thomas W Winkler & Iris M Heid
  13. Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Lu Qi, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Frank B Hu & David J Hunter
  14. Department of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Lu Qi, Frank B Hu & David J Hunter
  15. Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
    Iris M Heid, Claudia Lamina, Elisabeth Thiering, Chih-Mei Chen, Christian Gieger, Harald Grallert, Peter Rzehak, Joachim Heinrich, Thomas Illig, Annette Peters & H-Erich Wichmann
  16. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
    Eleanor Wheeler, Manjinder S Sandhu, Nicole Soranzo, Willem H Ouwehand, Panos Deloukas, Leena Peltonen & Inês Barroso
  17. Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Ayellet V Segrè, Sekar Kathiresan, Benjamin F Voight, Steven A McCarroll & Shaun Purcell
  18. Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Ayellet V Segrè, James Nemesh, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Sekar Kathiresan, Benjamin F Voight & Steven A McCarroll
  19. Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Ayellet V Segrè, Benjamin F Voight & Steven A McCarroll
  20. Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center (MC), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Karol Estrada, Najaf Amin, Fernando Rivadeneira, Sophie van Wingerden, Albert Hofman, Joyce B J van Meurs, Jacqueline C Witteman, André Uitterlinden & Cornelia M van Duijn
  21. Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Karol Estrada, Marjolein J Peters, Fernando Rivadeneira, Joyce B J van Meurs, André Uitterlinden & M Carola Zillikens
  22. Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Karol Estrada, Marjolein J Peters, Fernando Rivadeneira, Albert Hofman, Joyce B J van Meurs, Jacqueline C Witteman, André Uitterlinden, M Carola Zillikens & Cornelia M van Duijn
  23. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Liming Liang, Peter Kraft, Frank B Hu & David J Hunter
  24. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Liming Liang & Peter Kraft
  25. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Stefan Gustafsson, Fredrik Wiklund, Henrik Grönberg, Per Hall & Erik Ingelsson
  26. Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland, Australia
    Jian Yang & Peter M Visscher
  27. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR8199-IBL-Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France
    Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Christine Cavalcanti-Proença, Stefan Gaget, Cecile Lecoeur, David Meyre, Vincent Vatin & Philippe Froguel
  28. University Lille Nord de France, Lille, France
    Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Christine Cavalcanti-Proença, Stefan Gaget, Cecile Lecoeur, David Meyre, Vincent Vatin & Philippe Froguel
  29. Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
    Tõnu Esko, Tõnu Esko, Helene Alavere, Mari Nelis, Mari-Liis Tammesoo & Andres Metspalu
  30. Estonian Biocenter, Tartu, Estonia
    Tõnu Esko, Tõnu Esko, Mari Nelis, Maris Teder-Laving & Andres Metspalu
  31. Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
    Tõnu Esko, Tõnu Esko, Mari Nelis, Maris Teder-Laving & Andres Metspalu
  32. Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,
    Mary F Feitosa, Shamika Ketkar, Qunyuan Zhang & Ingrid B Borecki
  33. Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Zoltán Kutalik, Toby Johnson, Sven Bergmann, Diana Marek & Jacques S Beckmann
  34. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Zoltán Kutalik, Toby Johnson, Sven Bergmann & Diana Marek
  35. Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
    Massimo Mangino, Nicole Soranzo & Timothy D Spector
  36. Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Soumya Raychaudhuri
  37. Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
    Andre Scherag & Tanja Boes
  38. Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
    Albert Vernon Smith, Thor Aspelund, Gudny Eiriksdottir & Vilmundur Gudnason
  39. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Albert Vernon Smith, Thor Aspelund & Vilmundur Gudnason
  40. Comprehensive Cancer Center East, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Katja K Aben & Lambertus A Kiemeney
  41. Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
    Devin M Absher & Lindsay L Waite
  42. Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath, UK
    Anna L Dixon
  43. Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany
    Eva Fisher & Heiner Boeing
  44. Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Nicole L Glazer
  45. Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Nicole L Glazer & David S Siscovick
  46. University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
    Michael E Goddard
  47. Department of Primary Industries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,
    Michael E Goddard
  48. Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Nancy L Heard-Costa & Larry D Atwood
  49. Technical University Munich, Chair of Biomathematics, Garching, Germany
    Volker Hoesel
  50. Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit (VU) University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Eco J C Geus, Gonneke Willemsen & Dorret I Boomsma
  51. Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
    Åsa Johansson, Wilmar Igl & Ulf Gyllensten
  52. Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
    Åsa Johansson
  53. Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK
    Toby Johnson
  54. Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and The London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, UK
    Toby Johnson, Mark J Caulfield & Patricia B Munroe
  55. Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
    Claudia Lamina
  56. National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
    Miriam F Moffatt
  57. Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Richard H Myers
  58. National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Narisu Narisu, Lori L Bonnycastle, Peter S Chines, Michael R Erdos, Mario A Morken, Amy J Swift & Francis S Collins
  59. Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Statistik, Universität zu Lübeck, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
    Michael Preuss, Inke R König & Andreas Ziegler
  60. Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Samuli Ripatti, Niina Pellikka, Johannes Kettunen, Markus Perola, Kaisa Silander, Ida Surakka, Elisabeth Widen, Jaakko Kaprio & Leena Peltonen
  61. Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Unit of Public Health Genomics, Helsinki, Finland
    Samuli Ripatti, Niina Pellikka, Johannes Kettunen, Markus Perola, Kaisa Silander, Ida Surakka & Leena Peltonen
  62. Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark
    Camilla Sandholt, Anette P Gjesing, Torben Hansen & Oluf Pedersen
  63. Department of Social Medicine, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, Oakfield House, Bristol, UK
    Nicholas J Timpson, Ian N M Day, George Davey Smith & Debbie A Lawlor
  64. Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    Jonathan P Tyrer
  65. Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Richard M Watanabe
  66. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Richard M Watanabe, Richard N Bergman & Thomas A Buchanan
  67. Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Charles C White, Julius S Ngwa & L Adrienne Cupples
  68. Department of Medicine, University of Milan, Surgery and Dentistry, Milano, Italy
    Christina Barlassina & Fabio Macciardi
  69. Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Daniel I Chasman & Paul M Ridker
  70. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Daniel I Chasman, Lee M Kaplan & Paul M Ridker
  71. Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
    Matthew N Cooper, Robert W Lawrence, Jennie Hui & Lyle J Palmer
  72. Department of Physiology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
    John-Olov Jansson
  73. Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
    Maria T S Alibrandi, Chiara Lanzani & Paolo Manunta
  74. Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
    Peter Almgren & Leif C Groop
  75. Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Alice M Arnold & Barbara McKnight
  76. Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Alice M Arnold
  77. INSERM Centre de recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations (CESP) Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Public Health U1018, Villejuif, France
    Beverley Balkau
  78. University Paris Sud 11, Unité Mixte de Recherche en Santé (UMRS) 1018, Villejuif, France
    Beverley Balkau
  79. Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre (MCRC), Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics (LIGHT), University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
    Anthony J Balmforth & Alistair S Hall
  80. Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
    Yoav Ben-Shlomo
  81. Institute of Experimental Paediatric Endocrinology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    Heike Biebermann, Susanna Wiegand & Heiko Krude
  82. Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
    Alexandra I F Blakemore & Philippe Froguel
  83. Department of Medicine III, University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
    Stefan R Bornstein & Barbara Ludwig
  84. Clinical Pharmacology Unit, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
    Morris J Brown
  85. Division of Endocrinology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Thomas A Buchanan
  86. Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
    Fabio Busonero, Serena Sanna & Manuela Uda
  87. Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
    Harry Campbell, Sarah H Wild, Igor Rudan & James F Wilson
  88. University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK
    Francesco P Cappuccio
  89. Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Yii-Der Ida Chen & Talin Haritunians
  90. Clinical Trial Service Unit, Oxford, UK
    Robert Clarke
  91. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
    Lachlan Coin, Paul Elliott, Ulla Sovio & Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
  92. University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK
    John Connell
  93. Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Martin den Heijer & Lambertus A Kiemeney
  94. Department of Endocrinology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Martin den Heijer
  95. Northshore University Healthsystem, Evanston, Illinois, USA
    Jubao Duan, Pablo V Gejman & Alan R Sanders
  96. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
    Shah Ebrahim
  97. South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, New Dehli, India
    Shah Ebrahim
  98. MRC-Health Protection Agency (HPA) Centre for Environment and Health, London, UK
    Paul Elliott
  99. Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, Institut Municipal D'investigacio Medica and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain
    Roberto Elosua
  100. Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Johan G Eriksson
  101. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
    Johan G Eriksson & Eero Kajantie
  102. Helsinki University Central Hospital, Unit of General Practice, Helsinki, Finland
    Johan G Eriksson
  103. Folkhalsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland
    Johan G Eriksson, Bo Isomaa & Tiinamaija Tuomi
  104. Vasa Central Hospital, Vasa, Finland
    Johan G Eriksson
  105. Institute of Genetic Medicine, European Academy Bozen-Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
    Maurizio F Facheris, Andrew A Hicks, Irene Pichler & Peter P Pramstaller
  106. Department of Neurology, General Central Hospital, Bolzano, Italy
    Maurizio F Facheris & Peter P Pramstaller
  107. Department of Internal Medicine B, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany
    Stephan B Felix
  108. Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity Unit, Ulm, Germany
    Pamela Fischer-Posovszky & Martin Wabitsch
  109. Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
    Aaron R Folsom
  110. Institut für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin, Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
    Nele Friedrich, Sabine Schipf & Henri Wallaschofski
  111. Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Nelson B Freimer
  112. Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    Mao Fu, Alan R Shuldiner & Jeffrey R O'Connell
  113. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
    Anuj Goel & Hugh Watkins
  114. Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Philippe Goyette, Guillaume Lettre & Jean-Claude Tardif
  115. Department of Medicine III, Pathobiochemistry, University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
    Jürgen Gräßler
  116. Merck Research Laboratories, Merck and Co., Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Danielle M Greenawalt
  117. Department of Clinical Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
    Anna-Liisa Hartikainen & Anneli Pouta
  118. Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Helsinki, Finland
    Aki S Havulinna, Pekka Jousilahti, Seppo Koskinen & Veikko Salomaa
  119. MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
    Caroline Hayward, Veronique Vitart & Alan F Wright
  120. Department of Psychiatry and Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
    Andrew C Heath
  121. Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
    Christian Hengstenberg
  122. Regensburg University Medical Center, Innere Medizin II, Regensburg, Germany
    Christian Hengstenberg
  123. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
    Anke Hinney, Susann Scherag, Carla I G Vogel & Johannes Hebebrand
  124. Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
    Georg Homuth
  125. Department of Molecular Genetics, PathWest Laboratory of Western Australia, J Block, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
    Jennie Hui & John P Beilby
  126. Busselton Population Medical Research Foundation Inc., Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
    Jennie Hui, John P Beilby, Alan L James & Lyle J Palmer
  127. Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
    Carlos Iribarren
  128. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
    Carlos Iribarren
  129. Department of Social Services and Health Care, Jakobstad, Finland
    Bo Isomaa
  130. Core Genotyping Facility, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA
    Kevin B Jacobs
  131. Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
    Ivonne Jarick
  132. Institut für Epidemiologie und Sozialmedizin, Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
    Ulrich John
  133. Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
    Torben Jørgensen
  134. Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Torben Jørgensen
  135. Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Population Studies Unit, Turku, Finland
    Antti Jula
  136. Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
    Marika Kaakinen & Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
  137. Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
    Marika Kaakinen & Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
  138. Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), Helsinki, Finland
    Eero Kajantie
  139. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Weight Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Lee M Kaplan
  140. Cardiovascular Research Center and Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Sekar Kathiresan
  141. Framingham Heart Study of the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
    Sekar Kathiresan & Christopher J O'Donnell
  142. Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Sekar Kathiresan
  143. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Diabetes Prevention Unit, Helsinki, Finland
    Leena Kinnunen, Jaakko Tuomilehto & Timo T Valle
  144. Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
    Joshua W Knowles, Thomas Quertermous & Themistocles L Assimes
  145. Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
    Ivana Kolcic, Ozren Polasek & Lina Zgaga
  146. Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
    Peter Kovacs
  147. Department of Medicine, University of Kuopio and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
    Johanna Kuusisto & Markku Laakso
  148. Department of Public Health and General Practice, Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) Research Centre, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Levanger, Norway
    Kirsti Kvaløy, Kristian Midthjell, Carl G P Platou & Kristian Hveem
  149. Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland
    Jaana Laitinen
  150. Institut inter-regional pour la santé (IRSA), La Riche, France
    Olivier Lantieri
  151. Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Lenore J Launer & Tamara B Harris
  152. Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
    Terho Lehtimäki
  153. Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Guillaume Lettre & Jean-Claude Tardif
  154. Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
    Jianjun Liu
  155. Transplantation Laboratory, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Marja-Liisa Lokki
  156. Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
    Mattias Lorentzon & Claes Ohlsson
  157. Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    Robert N Luben, Manjinder S Sandhu & Kay-Tee Khaw
  158. Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nutrition, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
    Michel Marre
  159. Cardiovascular Genetics Research Unit, Université Henri Poincaré-Nancy 1, Nancy, France
    Michel Marre
  160. Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland, Australia
    Nicholas G Martin
  161. Department of Social Medicine, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
    Wendy L McArdle
  162. Division of Health, Research Board, An Bord Taighde Sláinte, Dublin, Ireland
    Anne McCarthy
  163. Institute of Human Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München, Munich, Germany
    Thomas Meitinger
  164. Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
    Thomas Meitinger
  165. Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
    Olle Melander & Martin Ridderstråle
  166. Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland, Australia
    Grant W Montgomery
  167. Croatian Centre for Global Health, School of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
    Rosanda Mulic & Igor Rudan
  168. Neurogenetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland, Australia
    Dale R Nyholt
  169. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
    Christopher J O'Donnell
  170. University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
    Stephen O'Rahilly & I Sadaf Farooqi
  171. Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Ben Oostra
  172. Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    Guillaume Paré
  173. Amgen, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Alex N Parker
  174. Department of Public Health, Finnish Twin Cohort Study, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Kirsi H Pietiläinen & Jaakko Kaprio
  175. Department of Psychiatry, Obesity Research Unit, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
    Kirsi H Pietiläinen & Aila Rissanen
  176. Department of Medicine, Levanger Hospital, The Nord-Trøndelag Health Trust, Levanger, Norway
    Carl G P Platou
  177. Gen-Info Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia
    Ozren Polasek
  178. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland
    Anneli Pouta & Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
  179. Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
    Suzanne Rafelt & Nilesh J Samani
  180. Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
    Olli Raitakari
  181. The Department of Clinical Physiology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
    Olli Raitakari
  182. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
    Winfried Rief
  183. Department of Clinical Sciences and Clinical Chemistry, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
    Aimo Ruokonen
  184. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Munich, Germany,
    Peter Rzehak & H-Erich Wichmann
  185. South Karelia Central Hospital, Lappeenranta, Finland
    Jouko Saramies
  186. Department of Clinical Sciences and Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
    Markku J Savolainen
  187. Institut für Community Medicine, Greifswald, Germany
    Sabine Schipf
  188. Institute for Clinical Molecular Biology and Department of Internal Medicine I, Christian-Albrechts-University, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
    Stefan Schreiber
  189. Universität zu Lübeck, Medizinische Klinik II, Lübeck, Germany
    Heribert Schunkert & Jeanette Erdmann
  190. Division of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Laboratory, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
    Juha Sinisalo & Markku S Nieminen
  191. Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    David S Siscovick
  192. Department of Psychiatry, Instituut voor Extramuraal Geneeskundig Onderzoek (EMGO) Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Jan H Smit & Brenda W Penninx
  193. Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    Jonathan Stephens & Willem H Ouwehand
  194. National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Centre, Cambridge, UK
    Jonathan Stephens & Willem H Ouwehand
  195. Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Cardiovascular Disease, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
    John R Thompson & Nilesh J Samani
  196. Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, UK
    John R Thompson
  197. Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
    Anke Tönjes & Michael Stumvoll
  198. Coordination Centre for Clinical Trials, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
    Anke Tönjes
  199. Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
    Tiinamaija Tuomi
  200. Research Program of Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Tiinamaija Tuomi
  201. Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Gert-Jan van Ommen
  202. Center of Medical Systems Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Gert-Jan van Ommen
  203. Department of Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
    Jorma Viikari
  204. INSERM Cardiovascular Genetics team, Centre Investigation Clinique (CIC) 9501, Nancy, France
    Sophie Visvikis-Siest
  205. Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
    Daniel R Witte
  206. Center for Human Genomics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Jianfeng Xu
  207. Department of Physiatrics, Lapland Central Hospital, Rovaniemi, Finland
    Paavo Zitting
  208. School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
    John P Beilby
  209. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
    Heikki V Huikuri
  210. School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
    Alan L James
  211. Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
    Mika Kähönen
  212. Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
    Douglas F Levinson
  213. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine (UCI), Irvine, California, USA
    Fabio Macciardi
  214. Leipziger Interdisziplinärer Forschungs-komplex zu molekularen Ursachen umwelt- und lebensstilassoziierter Erkrankungen (LIFE) Study Centre, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
    Michael Stumvoll
  215. Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Jacques S Beckmann
  216. Human Genetics Center and Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA
    Eric Boerwinkle
  217. Faculty of Health Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
    Torben Hansen
  218. New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
    Richard B Hayes
  219. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Unit for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Helsinki, Finland
    Jaakko Kaprio
  220. NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK
    Fredrik Karpe & Mark I McCarthy
  221. Department of Urology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Lambertus A Kiemeney
  222. Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Oluf Pedersen
  223. Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
    Oluf Pedersen
  224. Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Brenda W Penninx
  225. Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
    Brenda W Penninx
  226. Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
    Peter P Pramstaller
  227. Institute for Paediatric Nutrition Medicine, Vestische Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Witten-Herdecke, Datteln, Germany
    Thomas Reinehr
  228. Department of Medicine III, Prevention and Care of Diabetes, University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
    Peter E H Schwarz
  229. Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center, Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    Alan R Shuldiner
  230. Department of Public Health, Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Jaakko Tuomilehto
  231. South Ostrobothnia Central Hospital, Seinajoki, Finland
    Jaakko Tuomilehto
  232. Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Gérard Waeber
  233. The Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Shaun Purcell & Leena Peltonen
  234. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Shaun Purcell
  235. Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, USA
    Eric E Schadt
  236. Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Eric E Schadt
  237. Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
    Ingrid B Borecki
  238. Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
    Caroline S Fox
  239. Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
    Robert C Kaplan
  240. Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Karen L Mohlke
  241. Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Leena Peltonen
  242. Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    David Schlessinger
  243. Division of Community Health Sciences, St. George's, University of London, London, UK
    David P Strachan
  244. Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany
    H-Erich Wichmann
  245. Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
    Unnur Thorsteinsdottir & Kari Stefansson
  246. University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Institute of Metabolic Science Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
    Inês Barroso
  247. Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Kari E North
  248. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Joel N Hirschhorn

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I.B. and spouse own stock in Incyte Ltd and GlaxoSmithKline. J.N.H. is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Correlagen, Inc. V.H. has received consultancy fees from GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly and Takeda. A.P. is employed by Amgen. K.S., V.S., G.T., U.T. and G.B.W. are employed by deCODE Genetics.

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Speliotes, E., Willer, C., Berndt, S. et al. Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index.Nat Genet 42, 937–948 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.686

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