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Nature. 2021 Dec;600(7890):675-679. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04064-3. Epub 2021 Dec 09.

The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids.

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Affiliations

  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  2. VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
  3. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
  4. Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  5. William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
  6. Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistics Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  7. Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  8. Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
  9. Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
  10. Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  11. Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
  12. McDonnell Genome Institute and Department of Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA.
  13. Department of Precision Medicine, Division of Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, South Korea.
  14. Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
  15. Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  16. Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  17. Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
  18. Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
  19. Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  20. Atlanta VA Health Care System, Decatur, GA, USA.
  21. Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA.
  22. Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA.
  23. Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  24. Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
  25. Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
  26. Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
  27. deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  28. School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  29. Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Landspitali-National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  30. Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.
  31. Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
  32. Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
  33. Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  34. Laboratory for Statistical and Translational Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.
  35. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  36. Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
  37. Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  38. K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
  39. MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
  40. Department of Thoracic Medicine, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
  41. Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  42. Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
  43. Department of Genetics, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  44. Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
  45. Department of Medicine (Medical Genetics), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
  46. Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
  47. Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
  48. Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
  49. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Division of Public Health Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA.
  50. Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
  51. Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.
  52. Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  53. Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  54. Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  55. Department of Population Medicine, Qatar University College of Medicine, QU Health, Doha, Qatar.
  56. Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan.
  57. Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  58. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  59. Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
  60. Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  61. Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  62. Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
  63. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK.
  64. Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Southall, UK.
  65. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
  66. Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  67. Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
  68. MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK.
  69. Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK.
  70. Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
  71. Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  72. Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  73. Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
  74. Department of Biological Psychology, Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  75. Amsterdam Public Health, VU Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  76. Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  77. Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
  78. Department of Clinical Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
  79. Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
  80. Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
  81. MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
  82. Bristol Dental School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
  83. Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
  84. Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.
  85. Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  86. The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovations (Formerly LABioMed) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.
  87. Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
  88. William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, John Vane Science Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
  89. NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
  90. Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  91. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  92. Group of Genomics of Complex Diseases, Research Institute of Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain.
  93. Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
  94. Department of Internal Medicine, Section Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  95. Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research, Italian National Council of Research (IRGB CNR), Cagliari,, Italy.
  96. Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research, Italian National Council of Research (IRGB CNR), Lanusei, Italy.
  97. University Center for Primary Care and Public Health, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  98. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  99. Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  100. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
  101. Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  102. Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  103. BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Glasgow, UK.
  104. Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, DZHK (German Research Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner site Hamburg/Lübeck/Kiel, University Heart Center Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
  105. Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  106. Department of Periodontology and Synoptic Dentistry, Berlin Institute of Health, Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
  107. Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Klinik für Herz- und Kreislauferkrankungen, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.
  108. Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung (DZHK), Partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany.
  109. Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Department of Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
  110. Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmo, Sweden.
  111. Department of Genetics and Pharmacology, Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
  112. German Chronic Kidney Disease Study, Innsbruck, Austria.
  113. Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
  114. LIFE Research Centre for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
  115. Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  116. Quantinuum Research, Wayne, PA, USA.
  117. Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
  118. Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  119. Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Bolzano, Italy.
  120. Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle, Denmark.
  121. Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
  122. The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
  123. Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK.
  124. NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation Trust, London, UK.
  125. Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
  126. Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University College London, London, UK.
  127. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.
  128. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  129. Amsterdam UMC, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  130. Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  131. Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  132. Icelandic Heart Association, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  133. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
  134. Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
  135. Synlab MVZ Humangenetik Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
  136. Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
  137. Biomedical Technology Research Center, Tokushima Research Institute, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Tokushima, Japan.
  138. Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
  139. Institute for Advanced Research, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
  140. Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  141. Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  142. Data Tecnica International, Glen Echo, MD, USA.
  143. MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.
  144. Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometrie and Epidemiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
  145. Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
  146. Centre for Public Health, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK.
  147. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
  148. Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore.
  149. Public Health Informatics Unit, Department of Integrated Health Sciences, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
  150. MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, UK.
  151. Department of Pediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
  152. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
  153. Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
  154. Departamento de Medicina Genómica y Toxicología Ambiental, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, Mexico.
  155. Departamento de Genómica Computacional, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, Mexico.
  156. Center for Diabetes Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
  157. Lund University Diabetes Center, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden.
  158. Genomic Research on Complex Diseases (GRC Group), CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India.
  159. Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
  160. Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
  161. Medical Research Institute, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
  162. Department of Clinical Research Design and Evaluation, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.
  163. Center for Cohort Studies, Total Healthcare Center, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
  164. Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
  165. Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  166. Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  167. Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Denver, Aurora, CO, USA.
  168. Ocular Epidemiology, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore.
  169. Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.
  170. Genomics and Molecular Medicine Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India.
  171. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology Campus, New Delhi, India.
  172. Departments of Ophthalmology and Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  173. Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
  174. Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, Oakland, CA,, USA.
  175. National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
  176. Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  177. Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA,, USA.
  178. Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
  179. NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK.
  180. Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Beijing, China.
  181. Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
  182. Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso"-CNR, Naples, Italy.
  183. IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Isernia, Italy.
  184. Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA.
  185. Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tri-Service General Hospital Songshan Branch, Taipei, Taiwan.
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  239. Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Shimotsuke, Japan.
  240. Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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  244. Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia.
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  250. Corneal Dystrophy Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
  251. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  252. Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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  261. Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
  262. Institute of Epidemiology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.
  263. Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.
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  265. Geriatric Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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  267. Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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  292. Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  293. Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  294. USC-Office of Population Studies Foundation, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines.
  295. Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and History, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines.
  296. Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka.
  297. Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka.
  298. Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  299. Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
  300. Systems Genomics Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
  301. Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA.
  302. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA.
  303. Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
  304. Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
  305. Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.
  306. Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  307. Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  308. Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  309. Division of Physical Therapy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  310. Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  311. Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.
  312. Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
  313. Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
  314. University of Kentucky, College of Public Health, Lexington, KY, USA.
  315. Institute of Cellular Medicine (Diabetes), The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
  316. Department of Population Health, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
  317. University of Helsinki and Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
  318. Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland.
  319. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India.
  320. Diabetology Research Centre, KEM Hospital and Research Centre, Pune, India.
  321. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  322. Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  323. Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
  324. Unidad de Biología Molecular y Medicina Genómica, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico, Mexico.
  325. Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM, Ciudad de México, Mexico, Mexico.
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  334. Genetics, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Kenilworth, NJ, USA.
  335. Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  336. Population Health and Genomics, University of Dundee, Ninwells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK.
  337. Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  338. The Eye Hospital, School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
  339. Synlab Academy, Synlab, Mannheim, Germany.
  340. Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
  341. Unidad de Investigacion Medica en Bioquimica, Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Medico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico, Mexico.
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  348. Corporal Michael Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  349. Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Essex, UK.
  350. The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
  351. Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
  352. Kaiser Permanent Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
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  354. Danish Aging Research Center, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
  355. Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  356. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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  362. School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
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  364. Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung (DZHK) e.V., Partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany.
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  366. Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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  368. Program of Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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  376. University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
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  379. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  380. Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  381. Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  382. Population Health Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, UK.
  383. National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
  384. School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
  385. OCDEM, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.
  386. NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.
  387. Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
  388. DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Munich Heart Alliance Partner Site, Munich, Germany.
  389. University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
  390. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
  391. Amsterdam Reproduction and Development Research Institute, VU Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  392. Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  393. Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
  394. Department of Genetics, Shanghai-MOST Key Laboratory of Health and Disease Genomics, Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, Shanghai, China.
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  398. Stanford Diabetes Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
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  401. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College London, London, UK.
  402. MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
  403. Institute for Minority Health Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
  404. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
  405. QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
  406. Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology, Faislabad, Pakistan.
  407. Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
  408. Department of Cardiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
  409. Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  410. National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK.
  411. Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science, School of Medicine, Medical Science and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
  412. Division of Population Health and Genomics, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
  413. Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger Health, Danville, PA, USA.
  414. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
  415. Departments of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genome Sciences, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
  416. Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), Cincinnati, OH, USA.
  417. Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
  418. Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
  419. Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
  420. HUNT Research Centre, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Levanger, Norway.
  421. Department of Medicine, Levanger Hospital, Nord-Trøndelag Hospital Trust, Levanger, Norway.
  422. Department of Endocrinology, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
  423. RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.
  424. Laboratory of Complex Trait Genomics, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  425. Laboratory of Statistical Immunology, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
  426. Integrated Frontier Research for Medical Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
  427. Division of Molecular Pathology, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  428. VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.
  429. VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
  430. University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA.
  431. Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  432. Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
  433. Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  434. Department of Medicine, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
  435. Atlanta VA Medical Center, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  436. Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  437. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  438. Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  439. School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
  440. Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  441. Center for Genomic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
  442. Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  443. Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  444. Cardiovascular Research Center and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
  445. Centre for Genetics and Genomics Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
  446. VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA. [email protected].
  447. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. [email protected].
  448. Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. [email protected].
  449. Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  450. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. [email protected].
  451. Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. [email protected].
  452. Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. [email protected].
  453. Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. [email protected].

PMID: 34887591 PMCID: PMC8730582 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04064-3

Abstract

Increased blood lipid levels are heritable risk factors of cardiovascular disease with varied prevalence worldwide owing to different dietary patterns and medication use

© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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