1. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHBLI) Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA;
2. Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden;
3. Department of Cardiology, Division Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands;
4. Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands;
5. Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands;
6. Inserm Unite Mixte de Recherche (UMR)_S 937, ICAN Institute, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris 06), Paris, France;
7. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom;
8. Sticht Center on Aging, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC;
9. Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany;
10. Division of Intramural Research, NHLBI, Bethesda, MD;
11. Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;
12. Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA;
13. Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, VA Office of Research and Development, Seattle, WA;
14. Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Rotterdam Study:
15. Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center (MC) Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
16. Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
17. Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) Study Nonprofit LLC, Freiburg, Germany;
18. Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany;
19. Division of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD;
20. Inserm UMR_S 937, ICAN Institute, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris 06), Paris, France;
21. Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA;
22. Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;
23. Department of Biostatistics, Boston University, Boston, MA;
24. Department of Genetics and Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH;
25. Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom;
26. Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging, Leiden, The Netherlands;
27. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Nephrology, Vascular Disease, and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany;
28. Department of Epidemiology & Prevention, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC;
29. Department of Internal Medicine II-Cardiology, University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany;
30. Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia;
31. Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands;
32. Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC;
33. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom;
34. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom;
35. Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, United Kingdom;
36. Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College, London, London, United Kingdom;
37. Cardiology, Ealing Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Middlesex, United Kingdom;
38. Center for Non-Communicable Diseases Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan;
39. Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom;
40. Molecular Medicine and Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;
41. Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;
42. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Graduate School of Molecular Diabetology and Endocrinology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany;
43. Division of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Research, Leeds University, Leeds, United Kingdom;
44. Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;
45. Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;
46. Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA;
47. Department of Cardiovascular Research, Istituto Mario Negri, Milano, Italy;
48. Gesellschaft für Arterioskleroseforschunge V, Leibniz-Institut für Arterioskleroseforschung an der Universität Münster (LIFA), Münster, Germany;
49. Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;
50. Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom;
51. Departments of Medicine and Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT; GeneSTAR:
52. Departments of Medicine and Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT;
53. Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany;
54. Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology and Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany;
55. Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany;
56. Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;
57. Hemostasis Laboratory, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX; Cardiovascular Health Study:
58. Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands;
59. Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom;
60. General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA;
61. Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA;
62. Cardiovascular Research Center and Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA;
63. Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA;
64. Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA;
65. Cardiovascular Institute, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;
66. Division of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Resrarch Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany;
67. Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD;
68. Cardiology Team Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;
69. Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD;
70. Department of Pathology and Biochemistry, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT;
71. Synlab Academy, Mannheim, Germany;
72. Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz Austria;
73. Inserm UMR_S 626, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France;
74. Department of Epidemiology & Prevention, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC; and
75. Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA