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Christopher J. O'Donnell
Researcher at VA Boston Healthcare System
Publications - 914
Citations - 140860
Christopher J. O'Donnell is an academic researcher from VA Boston Healthcare System. The author has contributed to research in topics: Framingham Heart Study & Genome-wide association study. The author has an hindex of 159, co-authored 869 publications receiving 126278 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher J. O'Donnell include Brown University & Veterans Health Administration.
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Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index
Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Cristen J. Willer,Sonja I. Berndt,Keri L. Monda,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Anne U. Jackson,H Lango Allen,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Jian'an Luan,Reedik Mägi,Joshua C. Randall,Sailaja Vedantam,Thomas W. Winkler,Lu Qi,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Iris M. Heid,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Heather M. Stringham,Michael N. Weedon,Eleanor Wheeler,Andrew R. Wood,Teresa Ferreira,Robert J. Weyant,Ayellet V. Segrè,K. Estrada,Liming Liang,James Nemesh,Ju-Hyun Park,Stefan Gustafsson,Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,Jian Yang,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Tõnu Esko,Mary F. Feitosa,Zoltán Kutalik,Massimo Mangino,Soumya Raychaudhuri,André Scherag,Albert V. Smith,Ryan P. Welch,Jing Hua Zhao,Katja K.H. Aben,Devin Absher,Najaf Amin,Anna L. Dixon,Eva Fisher,Nicole L. Glazer,Michael E. Goddard,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Volker Hoesel,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Åsa Johansson,Toby Johnson,Shamika Ketkar,Claudia Lamina,Shengxu Li,MF Moffatt,Richard H. Myers,Narisu Narisu,John R. B. Perry,Maire Peters,Michael Preuss,Samuli Ripatti,Fernando Rivadeneira,Camilla H. Sandholt,Laura J. Scott,Nicholas J. Timpson,Jonathan Tyrer,S. van Wingerden,Richard M. Watanabe,Charles L. White,Fredrik Wiklund,Cristina Barlassina,Daniel I. Chasman,Mark E. Cooper,John-Olov Jansson,Robert W. Lawrence,Niina Pellikka,Inga Prokopenko,Jianxin Shi,Elisabeth Thiering,Helene Alavere,Maria Teresa Sciarrone Alibrandi,Peter Almgren,Andreas Arnold,Thor Aspelund,Larry D. Atwood,Beverley Balkau,Anthony J. Balmforth,Amanda J. Bennett,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,Heike Biebermann,Alexandra I. F. Blakemore,Tanja Boes,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Stefan R. Bornstein,Michael Brown,Thomas A. Buchanan,Fabio Busonero,Harry Campbell,Francesco P. Cappuccio,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Y. D. Chen,C. M. Chen,Peter S. Chines,Robert Clarke,Lachlan J. M. Coin,John M. C. Connell,Ian N.M. Day,M. den Heijer,Jubao Duan,Shah Ebrahim,Paul Elliott,Roberto Elosua,G. Eiriksdottir,Mike Erdos,Johan G. Eriksson,Maurizio Facheris,Stephan B. Felix,Pamela Fischer-Posovszky,Aaron R. Folsom,Nele Friedrich,Nelson B. Freimer,Mao Fu,Stéphane Gaget,Pablo V. Gejman,Eco J. C. de Geus,Christian Gieger,Anette P. Gjesing,Anuj Goel,Philippe Goyette,Harald Grallert,Jürgen Grässler,Danielle M. Greenawalt,C J Groves,Vilmundur Gudnason,Candace Guiducci,A.-L. Hartikainen,N Hassanali,Alistair S. Hall,Aki S. Havulinna,Caroline Hayward,Andrew C. Heath,Christian Hengstenberg,Andrew A. Hicks,Anke Hinney,Albert Hofman,G. Homuth,Jennie Hui,Wilmar Igl,Carlos Iribarren,Bo Isomaa,Kevin B. Jacobs,Ivonne Jarick,Elizabeth S. Jewell,Ulrich John,Torben Jørgensen,P. Jousilahti,A. Jula,Marika Kaakinen,Eero Kajantie,Lee M. Kaplan,Sekar Kathiresan,Johannes Kettunen,Leena Kinnunen,Joshua W. Knowles,Ivana Kolcic,Inke R. König,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Johanna Kuusisto,Peter Kraft,Kirsti Kvaløy,Jaana Laitinen,Olivier Lantieri,Chiara Lanzani,Lenore J. Launer,Cécile Lecoeur,Terho Lehtimäki,Guillaume Lettre,Jianjun Liu,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Mattias Lorentzon,Robert Luben,Barbara Ludwig,Paolo Manunta,Diana Marek,Michel Marre,Nicholas G. Martin,Wendy L. McArdle,Alun D. McCarthy,Barbara McKnight,Thomas Meitinger,Olle Melander,David Meyre,Kristian Midthjell,Grant W. Montgomery,M. A. Morken,Andrew P. Morris,Rosanda Mulić,Julius S. Ngwa,Mari Nelis,Matt Neville,Dale R. Nyholt,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Stephen O'Rahilly,Ken K. Ong,Ben A. Oostra,Guillaume Paré,Alex N. Parker,Markus Perola,Irene Pichler,Kirsi H. Pietiläinen,Carl Platou,Ozren Polasek,A Pouta,Suzanne Rafelt,Olli T. Raitakari,Nigel W. Rayner,Martin Ridderstråle,Winfried Rief,Aimo Ruokonen,Neil R. Robertson,Peter Rzehak,Veikko Salomaa,Alan R. Sanders,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Serena Sanna,Jouko Saramies,Markku J. Savolainen,S. Scherag,Sabine Schipf,Stefan Schreiber,Heribert Schunkert,Kaisa Silander,Juha Sinisalo,David S. Siscovick,J.H. Smit,Nicole Soranzo,Ulla Sovio,J. Stephens,Ida Surakka,Amy J. Swift,M. L. Tammesoo,Jean-Claude Tardif,Maris Teder-Laving,Tanya M. Teslovich,John R. Thompson,Brian Thomson,A Tönjes,Tiinamaija Tuomi,J.B. van Meurs,G.J.B. van Ommen,Vincent Vatin,Jorma Viikari,Sophie Visvikis-Siest,Veronique Vitart,Charlotte Vogel,Benjamin F. Voight,Lindsay L. Waite,Henri Wallaschofski,G B Walters,E. Widen,Susanna Wiegand,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Daniel R. Witte,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,Jianfeng Xu,Qunyuan Zhang,Lina Zgaga,Andreas Ziegler,P. Zitting,John Beilby,I S Farooqi,Johannes Hebebrand,Heikki V. Huikuri,Alan L. James,Mika Kähönen,Douglas F. Levinson,Fabio Macciardi,Markku S. Nieminen,Claes Ohlsson,Lyle J. Palmer,Paul M. Ridker,Michael Stumvoll,Jacques S. Beckmann,H. Boeing,Eric Boerwinkle,Dorret I. Boomsma,Mark J. Caulfield,Stephen J. Chanock,Francis S. Collins,L. A. Cupples,George Davey Smith,Jeanette Erdmann,Philippe Froguel,Henrik Grönberg,Ulf Gyllensten,Per Hall,Torben Hansen,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Richard B. Hayes,Joachim Heinrich,Frank B. Hu,Kristian Hveem,Thomas Illig,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Jaakko Kaprio,Fredrik Karpe,Kay-Tee Khaw,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Heiko Krude,Markku Laakso,Debbie A Lawlor,Andres Metspalu,Patricia B. Munroe,Willem H. Ouwehand,Oluf Pedersen,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Annette Peters,Peter P. Pramstaller,Thomas Quertermous,Thomas Reinehr,A. Rissanen,Igor Rudan,Nilesh J. Samani,Peter Schwarz,Alan R. Shuldiner,Tim D. Spector,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Manuela Uda,André G. Uitterlinden,Valle Tt,Martin Wabitsch,G. Waeber,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,James F. Wilson,Alan F. Wright,M. C. Zillikens,Nilanjan Chatterjee,Steven A. McCarroll,Shaun Purcell,Eric E. Schadt,Peter M. Visscher,Themistocles L. Assimes,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Leif Groop,Talin Haritunians,David J. Hunter,Robert C. Kaplan,Karen L. Mohlke,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Leena Peltonen,David Schlessinger,David P. Strachan,C M van Duijn,H. E. Wichmann,Timothy M. Frayling,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Inês Barroso,Michael Boehnke,Kari Stefansson,Kari E. North,Mark I. McCarthy,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Erik Ingelsson,Ruth J. F. Loos +374 more
TL;DR: 18 new loci associated with body mass index are identified, one of which includes a copy number variant near GPRC5B, and genes in other newly associated loci may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.
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Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study
Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Gina M. Peloso,Gina M. Peloso,Marju Orho-Melander,Ruth Frikke-Schmidt,Maja Barbalić,Majken K. Jensen,George Hindy,Hilma Holm,Eric L. Ding,Toby Johnson,Heribert Schunkert,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Robert Clarke,Jemma C. Hopewell,John F. Thompson,Mingyao Li,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Kiran Musunuru,Kiran Musunuru,James P. Pirruccello,James P. Pirruccello,Danish Saleheen,Li Chen,Alexandre F.R. Stewart,Arne Schillert,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Gudmundur Thorgeirsson,Sonia S. Anand,James C. Engert,Thomas M. Morgan,John A. Spertus,Monika Stoll,Klaus Berger,Nicola Martinelli,Domenico Girelli,Pascal P. McKeown,Christopher Patterson,Stephen E. Epstein,Joseph M. Devaney,Mary Susan Burnett,Vincent Mooser,Samuli Ripatti,Ida Surakka,Markku S. Nieminen,Juha Sinisalo,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Markus Perola,Aki S. Havulinna,Ulf de Faire,Bruna Gigante,Erik Ingelsson,Tanja Zeller,Philipp S. Wild,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Olaf H. Klungel,Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee,Bas J M Peters,Anthonius de Boer,Diederick E. Grobbee,Pieter Willem Kamphuisen,Vera H.M. Deneer,Clara C. Elbers,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Marten H. Hofker,Cisca Wijmenga,W. M. Monique Verschuren,Jolanda M. A. Boer,Yvonne T. van der Schouw,Asif Rasheed,Philippe M. Frossard,Serkalem Demissie,Serkalem Demissie,Cristen J. Willer,Ron Do,Jose M. Ordovas,Jose M. Ordovas,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Michael Boehnke,Karen L. Mohlke,Mark J. Daly,Mark J. Daly,Candace Guiducci,Noël P. Burtt,Aarti Surti,Elena Gonzalez,Shaun Purcell,Shaun Purcell,Stacey Gabriel,Jaume Marrugat,John F. Peden,Jeanette Erdmann,Patrick Diemert,Christina Willenborg,Inke R. König,Marcus Fischer,Christian Hengstenberg,Andreas Ziegler,Ian Buysschaert,Diether Lambrechts,Frans Van de Werf,Keith A.A. Fox,Nour Eddine El Mokhtari,Diana Rubin,Jürgen Schrezenmeir,Stefan Schreiber,Arne Schäfer,John Danesh,Stefan Blankenberg,Robert Roberts,Ruth McPherson,Hugh Watkins,Alistair S. Hall,Kim Overvad,Eric B. Rimm,Eric Boerwinkle,Anne Tybjærg-Hansen,L. Adrienne Cupples,L. Adrienne Cupples,Muredach P. Reilly,Olle Melander,Pier Mannuccio Mannucci,Diego Ardissino,David S. Siscovick,Roberto Elosua,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Veikko Salomaa,Daniel J. Rader,Leena Peltonen,Leena Peltonen,Stephen M. Schwartz,David Altshuler,Sekar Kathiresan +140 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a Mendelian randomisation analysis was performed to compare the effect of HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and genetic score on risk of myocardial infarction.
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Impact of High-Normal Blood Pressure on the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Ramachandran S. Vasan,Martin G. Larson,Eric P. Leip,Jane C. Evans,Christopher J. O'Donnell,William B. Kannel,Daniel Levy +6 more
TL;DR: The association between blood-pressure category at base line and the incidence of cardiovascular disease on follow-up among 6859 participants in the Framingham Heart Study who were initially free of hypertension and cardiovascular disease was investigated.
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A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease
Majid Nikpay,Anuj Goel,Won H-H.,Leanne M. Hall,Christina Willenborg,Stavroula Kanoni,Danish Saleheen,Theodosios Kyriakou,Christopher P. Nelson,Christopher P. Nelson,Jemma C. Hopewell,Tom R. Webb,Tom R. Webb,Lingyao Zeng,Abbas Dehghan,Maris Alver,Sebastian M. Armasu,Kirsi Auro,Kirsi Auro,Andrew Bjonnes,Daniel I. Chasman,Shufeng Chen,Ian Ford,Nora Franceschini,Christian Gieger,Christopher Grace,Stefan Gustafsson,Jie Huang,Hwang S-J.,Yun Kyoung Kim,Marcus E. Kleber,King Wai Lau,Xiangfeng Lu,Yingchang Lu,Lyytikäinen L-P.,Evelin Mihailov,Alanna C. Morrison,Natalia Pervjakova,Natalia Pervjakova,Natalia Pervjakova,Liming Qu,Lynda M. Rose,Elias Salfati,Richa Saxena,Markus Scholz,Albert V. Smith,Emmi Tikkanen,André G. Uitterlinden,Xueli Yang,Weihua Zhang,Wei Zhao,M. De Andrade,P. De Vries,N. R. van Zuydam,N. R. van Zuydam,Sonia S. Anand,Lars Bertram,Frank Beutner,George Dedoussis,Philippe M. Frossard,Dominique Gauguier,Alison H. Goodall,Omri Gottesman,Marc Haber,Han B-G.,Shapour Jalilzadeh,Thorsten Kessler,Inke R. König,Lars Lannfelt,Wolfgang Lieb,Lars Lind,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Lokki M-L.,Lokki M-L.,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Nadeem Hayyat Mallick,Narinder K. Mehra,Thomas Meitinger,Memon F-U-R.,Andrew P. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Markku S. Nieminen,Nancy L. Pedersen,Annette Peters,Loukianos S. Rallidis,Adil Rasheed,M Samuel,Svati H. Shah,Juha Sinisalo,Kathleen Stirrups,Stella Trompet,Ligui Wang,Ligui Wang,Khan Shah Zaman,Diego Ardissino,Eric Boerwinkle,Ingrid B. Borecki,Erwin P. Bottinger,Julie E. Buring,John C. Chambers,Rory Collins,L. A. Cupples,L. A. Cupples,John Danesh,Ilja Demuth,Roberto Elosua,Stephen E. Epstein,Tõnu Esko,Mary F. Feitosa,Oscar H. Franco,MariaGrazia Franzosi,Christopher B. Granger,Dongfeng Gu,Vilmundur Gudnason,Alistair S. Hall,Anders Hamsten,Tamara B. Harris,Stanley L. Hazen,Christian Hengstenberg,Albert Hofman,Erik Ingelsson,Carlos Iribarren,J W Jukema,Pekka J. Karhunen,Kim B-J.,Jaspal S. Kooner,Iftikhar J. Kullo,Terho Lehtimäki,Loos Rjf.,Olle Melander,Andres Metspalu,Winfried März,Winfried März,Winfried März,Colin N. A. Palmer,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Thomas Quertermous,Daniel J. Rader,Paul M. Ridker,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Robert Roberts,Veikko Salomaa,Dharambir K. Sanghera,Stephen M. Schwartz,Udo Seedorf,Alexandre F.R. Stewart,David J. Stott,Joachim Thiery,Pierre Zalloua,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Muredach P. Reilly,Themistocles L. Assimes,John R. Thompson,Jeanette Erdmann,Robert Clarke,Hugh Watkins,Sekar Kathiresan,Ruth McPherson,Panos Deloukas,Panos Deloukas,Heribert Schunkert,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Martin Farrall +167 more
TL;DR: This article conducted a meta-analysis of coronary artery disease (CAD) cases and controls, interrogating 6.7 million common (minor allele frequency (MAF) > 0.05) and 2.7 millions low-frequency (0.005 < MAF < 0.5) variants.
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Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk
Georg Ehret,Georg Ehret,Georg Ehret,Patricia B. Munroe,Kenneth Rice,Murielle Bochud,Andrew D. Johnson,Daniel I. Chasman,Albert V. Smith,Martin D. Tobin,Germaine C. Verwoert,Shih-Jen Hwang,Vasyl Pihur,Peter Vollenweider,Paul F. O'Reilly,Najaf Amin,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Alexander Teumer,Nicole L. Glazer,Lenore J. Launer,Jing Hua Zhao,Yurii S. Aulchenko,Simon Heath,Siim Sõber,Afshin Parsa,Jian'an Luan,Pankaj Arora,Abbas Dehghan,Feng Zhang,Gavin Lucas,Andrew A. Hicks,Anne U. Jackson,John F. Peden,Toshiko Tanaka,Sarah H. Wild,Igor Rudan,Igor Rudan,Wilmar Igl,Yuri Milaneschi,Alex Parker,Cristiano Fava,Cristiano Fava,John C. Chambers,John C. Chambers,Ervin R. Fox,Meena Kumari,Min Jin Go,Pim van der Harst,Wen Hong Linda Kao,Marketa Sjögren,D. G. Vinay,Myriam Alexander,Yasuharu Tabara,Sue Shaw-Hawkins,Peter H. Whincup,Yongmei Liu,Gang Shi,Johanna Kuusisto,Bamidele O. Tayo,Mark Seielstad,Mark Seielstad,Xueling Sim,Khanh-Dung H. Nguyen,Terho Lehtimäki,Giuseppe Matullo,Ying Wu,Tom R. Gaunt,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Mark E. Cooper,Carl G. P. Platou,Elin Org,Rebecca Hardy,Santosh Dahgam,Jutta Palmen,Veronique Vitart,Peter S. Braund,Peter S. Braund,Tatiana Kuznetsova,Cuno S.P.M. Uiterwaal,Adebowale Adeyemo,Walter Palmas,Harry Campbell,Barbara Ludwig,Maciej Tomaszewski,Maciej Tomaszewski,Ioanna Tzoulaki,Ioanna Tzoulaki,Nicholette D. Palmer,Thor Aspelund,Melissa Garcia,Yen Pei C. Chang,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Nanette I. Steinle,Diederick E. Grobbee,Dan E. Arking,Sharon L.R. Kardia,Alanna C. Morrison,Dena G. Hernandez,Samer S. Najjar,Samer S. Najjar,Wendy L. McArdle,David Hadley,David Hadley,Morris J. Brown,John M. C. Connell,Aroon D. Hingorani,Ian N. M. Day,Debbie A Lawlor,John Beilby,Robert W. Lawrence,Robert Clarke,Jemma C. Hopewell,Halit Ongen,Albert W. Dreisbach,Yali Li,J. Hunter Young,Joshua C. Bis,Mika Kähönen,Jorma Viikari,Linda S. Adair,Nanette R. Lee,Ming-Huei Chen,Matthias Olden,Cristian Pattaro,Judith A. Hoffman Bolton,Anna Köttgen,Anna Köttgen,Sven Bergmann,Sven Bergmann,Vincent Mooser,Nish Chaturvedi,Timothy M. Frayling,Muhammad Islam,Tazeen H. Jafar,Jeanette Erdmann,Smita R. Kulkarni,Stefan R. Bornstein,Jürgen Grässler,Leif Groop,Benjamin F. Voight,Johannes Kettunen,Philip Howard,Andrew M. Taylor,Simonetta Guarrera,Fulvio Ricceri,Valur Emilsson,Andrew S. Plump,Inês Barroso,Inês Barroso,Kay-Tee Khaw,Alan B. Weder,Steven C. Hunt,Yan V. Sun,Richard N. Bergman,Francis S. Collins,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Laura J. Scott,Heather M. Stringham,Leena Peltonen,Markus Perola,Erkki Vartiainen,Stefan Martin Brand,Jan A. Staessen,Thomas J. Wang,Thomas J. Wang,Paul Burton,Paul Burton,María Soler Artigas,Yanbin Dong,Harold Snieder,Harold Snieder,Xiaoling Wang,Haidong Zhu,Kurt Lohman,Megan E. Rudock,Susan R. Heckbert,Susan R. Heckbert,Nicholas L. Smith,Nicholas L. Smith,Nicholas L. Smith,Kerri L. Wiggins,Ayo P. Doumatey,Daniel Shriner,Gudrun Veldre,Margus Viigimaa,Sanjay Kinra,Dorairaj Prabhakaran,Vikal Tripathy,Carl D. Langefeld,Annika Rosengren,Dag S. Thelle,Anna Maria Corsi,Andrew B. Singleton,Terrence Forrester,Gina Hilton,Colin A. McKenzie,Tunde Salako,Naoharu Iwai,Yoshikuni Kita,Toshio Ogihara,Takayoshi Ohkubo,Takayoshi Ohkubo,Tomonori Okamura,Hirotsugu Ueshima,Satoshi Umemura,Susana Eyheramendy,Thomas Meitinger,H.-Erich Wichmann,Yoon Shin Cho,Hyung Lae Kim,Jong-Young Lee,James Scott,Joban Sehmi,Joban Sehmi,Weihua Zhang,Bo Hedblad,Peter M. Nilsson,George Davey Smith,Andrew Wong,Narisu Narisu,Alena Stančáková,Leslie J. Raffel,Jie Yao,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Stephen M. Schwartz,M. Arfan Ikram,W. T. Longstreth,Thomas H. Mosley,Sudha Seshadri,Nick Shrine,Louise V. Wain,Mario A. Morken,Amy J. Swift,Jaana Laitinen,Inga Prokopenko,Inga Prokopenko,Paavo Zitting,Jackie A. Cooper,Steve E. Humphries,John Danesh,Asif Rasheed,Anuj Goel,Anders Hamsten,Hugh Watkins,Stephan J. L. Bakker,Wiek H. van Gilst,C. S. Janipalli,K. Radha Mani,Chittaranjan S. Yajnik,Albert Hofman,Francesco U.S. Mattace-Raso,Ben A. Oostra,Ayse Demirkan,Aaron Isaacs,Fernando Rivadeneira,Edward G. Lakatta,Marco Orrù,Angelo Scuteri,Mika Ala-Korpela,Mika Ala-Korpela,Antti J. Kangas,Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,Pasi Soininen,Pasi Soininen,Taru Tukiainen,Taru Tukiainen,Taru Tukiainen,Peter Würtz,Peter Würtz,Peter Würtz,Rick Twee-HeeOng,Rick Twee-HeeOng,Marcus Dörr,Heyo K. Kroemer,Uwe Völker,Henry Völzke,Pilar Galan,Serge Hercberg,Mark Lathrop,Diana Zelenika,Panos Deloukas,Massimo Mangino,Tim D. Spector,Guangju Zhai,James F. Meschia,Mike A. Nalls,Pankaj Sharma,Janoš Terzić,M.V. Kranthi Kumar,Matthew Denniff,Ewa Zukowska-Szczechowska,Lynne E. Wagenknecht,F. Gerald R. Fowkes,Fadi J. Charchar,Peter Schwarz,Caroline Hayward,Xiuqing Guo,Charles N. Rotimi,Michiel L. Bots,Eva Brand,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Ozren Polasek,Philippa J. Talmud,Fredrik Nyberg,Fredrik Nyberg,Diana Kuh,Maris Laan,Kristian Hveem,Lyle J. Palmer,Lyle J. Palmer,Yvonne T. van der Schouw,Juan P. Casas,Karen L. Mohlke,Paolo Vineis,Olli T. Raitakari,Santhi K. Ganesh,Tien Yin Wong,Tien Yin Wong,E. Shyong Tai,Richard S. Cooper,Markku Laakso,Dabeeru C. Rao,Tamara B. Harris,Richard W Morris,Anna F. Dominiczak,Mika Kivimäki,Michael Marmot,Tetsuro Miki,Danish Saleheen,Giriraj R. Chandak,Josef Coresh,Gerjan Navis,Veikko Salomaa,Bok Ghee Han,Xiaofeng Zhu,Jaspal S. Kooner,Jaspal S. Kooner,Olle Melander,Paul M. Ridker,Stefania Bandinelli,Ulf Gyllensten,Alan F. Wright,James F. Wilson,Luigi Ferrucci,Martin Farrall,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Peter P. Pramstaller,Roberto Elosua,Nicole Soranzo,Nicole Soranzo,Eric J.G. Sijbrands,David Altshuler,David Altshuler,Ruth J. F. Loos,Alan R. Shuldiner,Alan R. Shuldiner,Christian Gieger,Pierre Meneton,André G. Uitterlinden,Nicholas J. Wareham,Vilmundur Gudnason,Jerome I. Rotter,Rainer Rettig,Manuela Uda,David P. Strachan,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Jacques S. Beckmann,Eric Boerwinkle,Ramachandran S. Vasan,Ramachandran S. Vasan,Michael Boehnke,Martin G. Larson,Martin G. Larson,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Bruce M. Psaty,Bruce M. Psaty,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Aravinda Chakravarti,Paul Elliott,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Daniel Levy,Mark J. Caulfield,Toby Johnson +391 more
TL;DR: A genetic risk score based on 29 genome-wide significant variants was associated with hypertension, left ventricular wall thickness, stroke and coronary artery disease, but not kidney disease or kidney function, and these findings suggest potential novel therapeutic pathways for cardiovascular disease prevention.