Affiliations

• ¹ Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ³ VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁴ Estonian Genome Centre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
• ⁵ Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University medical center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁷ Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
• ⁸ German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD, München-Neuherberg, Germany.
• ⁹ MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK.
• ¹⁰ University of Lille Nord de France, Lille, France.
• ¹¹ CNRS UMR8199, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France.
• ¹² INSERM U970, Paris Cardiovascular Research Center PARCC, 75006, Paris, France.
• ¹³ Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
• ¹⁴ Boston University Data Coordinating Center, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹⁵ Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁶ MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
• ¹⁷ Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
• ¹⁸ Institute for Bioinnovation, Biomedical Sciences Research Center Al. Fleming, Vari, Greece.
• ¹⁹ Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ²⁰ Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden.
• ²¹ Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
• ²² Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ²³ Université de Lorraine, IGE-PCV, F-54000, Nancy, France.
• ²⁴ Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ²⁵ CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases and Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ²⁶ Department of Physiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ²⁷ MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.
• ²⁸ Translational Gerontology Branch, Longitudinal Study Section, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ²⁹ Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ³⁰ Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ³¹ Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ³² Laboratory for Cancer Medicine, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, University of Western Australia Centre for Medical Research, Nedlands, WA, Australia.
• ³³ Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.
• ³⁴ Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³⁵ Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³⁶ Departmentartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, MGH, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³⁷ Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
• ³⁸ Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
• ³⁹ Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
• ⁴⁰ Department of Epidemiology Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ⁴¹ Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland.
• ⁴² Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• ⁴³ Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁴⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁴⁵ Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁴⁶ Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ⁴⁷ Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
• ⁴⁸ Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
• ⁴⁹ William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
• ⁵⁰ NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
• ⁵¹ Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁵² deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• ⁵³ Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁵⁴ Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁵⁵ Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
• ⁵⁶ Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ⁵⁷ Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
• ⁵⁸ Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁵⁹ Synpromics Ltd, Roslin Innovation Centre, Easter Bush Campus, Edinburgh, EH25 9RG, UK.
• ⁶⁰ Genentech, 340 Point San Bruno Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA, 94080, USA.
• ⁶¹ Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
• ⁶² Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden.
• ⁶³ Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
• ⁶⁴ Division of Angiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
• ⁶⁵ Institute of Genetic Epidemiology,Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
• ⁶⁶ Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology and Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
• ⁶⁷ Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
• ⁶⁸ Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55101, Mainz, Germany.
• ⁶⁹ Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁷⁰ Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• ⁷¹ Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• ⁷² Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
• ⁷³ Public Health Genomics Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
• ⁷⁴ Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
• ⁷⁵ Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden.
• ⁷⁶ Department of Odontology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
• ⁷⁷ Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ⁷⁸ RIKEN, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Laboratory for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Kidney Disease, Yokohama, Japan.
• ⁷⁹ Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
• ⁸⁰ Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, CNR, Monserrato, Italy.
• ⁸¹ Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• ⁸² Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁸³ IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁸⁴ Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• ⁸⁵ Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia.
• ⁸⁶ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁸⁷ Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute of Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁸⁸ Pediatric Research Center, Department of Women's & Child Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁸⁹ Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.
• ⁹⁰ Department of Dietetics-Nutrition, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
• ⁹¹ Center for Biomedicine, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) (Affiliated Institute of the University of LübeckLübeckGermany), Bolzano, Italy.
• ⁹² Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland.
• ⁹³ Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.
• ⁹⁴ Geriatric Unit, Azienda Sanitaria Firenze (ASF), Florence, Italy.
• ⁹⁵ Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
• ⁹⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
• ⁹⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Center for Aging and Population Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• ⁹⁸ Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Akademiska sjukhuset, Uppsala, Sweden.
• ⁹⁹ Pat McPherson Centre for Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics, Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
• ¹⁰⁰ Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
• ¹⁰¹ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.
• ¹⁰² University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, UK.
• ¹⁰³ Institute of Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ¹⁰⁴ Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ¹⁰⁵ Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 30, Helsinki, FI-00271, Finland.
• ¹⁰⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, P.O. Box 340, Haartmaninkatu 4, Helsinki, FI-00029, Finland.
• ¹⁰⁷ Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Biomedicum 2U, Tukholmankatu 8, Helsinki, FI-00290, Finland.
• ¹⁰⁸ Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹⁰⁹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ¹¹⁰ Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
• ¹¹¹ Dept of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• ¹¹² Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ¹¹³ Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
• ¹¹⁴ Department of Government Services, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹¹⁵ PEDEGO Research Unit, Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
• ¹¹⁶ IMM Center for Human Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
• ¹¹⁷ Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
• ¹¹⁸ Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MiI, USA.
• ¹¹⁹ Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹²⁰ Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Unit, University Hospital Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
• ¹²¹ Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ¹²² Department of Endocrinology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ¹²³ General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹²⁴ Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹²⁵ Department of Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹²⁶ Novo Nordisk A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ¹²⁷ Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Diabetes Prevention Unit, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹²⁸ Department of Medicine, Division for Prevention and Care of Diabetes, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
• ¹²⁹ Department for Prevention and Care of Diabetes, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
• ¹³⁰ Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of the Helmholtz Center Munich at University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
• ¹³¹ German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Neuherberg, Germany.
• ¹³² Cardiology Group, Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, Germany.
• ¹³³ Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore and Imperial College London, Singapore, Singapore.
• ¹³⁴ Synlab Academy, Synlab Holding Deutschland GmbH, Mannheim, Germany.
• ¹³⁵ Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• ¹³⁶ Diabetes Research Center, Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹³⁷ Institute of Biomedicine/Physiology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Kuopio, Finland.
• ¹³⁸ Faculty of Medicine, Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
• ¹³⁹ Unit of General Practice, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
• ¹⁴⁰ Finnish Diabetes Association, Tampere, Finland.
• ¹⁴¹ Pirkanmaa Hospital District, Tampere, Finland.
• ¹⁴² Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ¹⁴³ Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹⁴⁴ Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹⁴⁵ Centre for Vascular Prevention, Danube-University Krems, Krems, Austria.
• ¹⁴⁶ Diabetes Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• ¹⁴⁷ Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹⁴⁸ Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Units of Medicine and Nutritional Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
• ¹⁴⁹ Inserm, CESP Center for Research in Epidemiology and Public Health, U1018, Villejuif, France.
• ¹⁵⁰ Univ Paris-Saclay, Univ Paris Sud, UVSQ, UMRS 1018, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France.
• ¹⁵¹ Centre for Medical Systems Biology, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁵² Hannover Unified Biobank, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
• ¹⁵³ Institute of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
• ¹⁵⁴ Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ¹⁵⁵ Department of Neurology, General Central Hospital, Bolzano, Italy.
• ¹⁵⁶ Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
• ¹⁵⁷ Genetics of Complex Traits, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
• ¹⁵⁸ The Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY, USA.
• ¹⁵⁹ School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
• ¹⁶⁰ U872 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, 75006, Paris, France.
• ¹⁶¹ Geriatric Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ¹⁶² Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁶³ MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
• ¹⁶⁴ The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹⁶⁵ Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹⁶⁶ Endocrinology, Abdominal Centre, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹⁶⁷ Research Program for Clinical and Molecular Metabolism, University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹⁶⁸ Netherlands Consortium for healthy ageing, the Hague, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁶⁹ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
• ¹⁷⁰ Faculty of Medicine University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• ¹⁷¹ Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ¹⁷² Department of Medicine, University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ¹⁷³ Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹⁷⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and HPA-MRC Center, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ¹⁷⁵ Institue of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
• ¹⁷⁶ Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
• ¹⁷⁷ Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹⁷⁸ Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ¹⁷⁹ Oxford National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.
• ¹⁸⁰ Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ¹⁸¹ Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ¹⁸² School of Biosciences and Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
• ¹⁸³ Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
• ¹⁸⁴ Department of Physiology & Neuroscience, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ¹⁸⁵ USC Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ¹⁸⁶ Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
• ¹⁸⁷ Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
• ¹⁸⁸ Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹⁸⁹ University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, UK.
• ¹⁹⁰ Exeter Centre of ExcEllence in Diabetes (ExCEED), University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK.
• ¹⁹¹ Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ¹⁹² Centre for Genetics and Genomics Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• ¹⁹³ Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. i.prokopenko@surrey.ac.uk.
• ¹⁹⁴ Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK. i.prokopenko@surrey.ac.uk.
• ¹⁹⁵ Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. i.prokopenko@surrey.ac.uk.
• ¹⁹⁶ School of Biosciences and Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. i.prokopenko@surrey.ac.uk.
• ¹⁹⁷ Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Federal Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russian Federation. i.prokopenko@surrey.ac.uk.