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A.H., S.G., G. Thorleifsson, U.T., D.F.G., H.H., and K.S. conceived and designed the study. D.F.G. developed statistical tools. E.H. and G.M. contributed to bioinformatic analysis. A.S., A.M., A.J., and H.K. performed experiments. A.H., G. Thorleifsson, D.F.G., A.O., and G.S. performed statistical analysis. T.R., I.J., I.O., G.I.E., O.S., M.S.D., D.K., F.A., D.W.S., L.K., A.A.Q., A.I.L., R.S.P., S.S.H., I.J.G., V.S., and G. Thorgeirsson contributed to data acquisition. A.H., S.G., G. Thorleifsson, P.S., I.O., G. Thorgeirsson, U.T., D.F.G., H.H., and K.S. analyzed and interpreted the data. All authors reviewed and approved the manuscript. K.S. supervised the study.
The authors thank all the individuals who participated in this study and whose contribution made this work possible. We also thank our valued colleagues who contributed to the data collection and phenotypic characterization of clinical samples as well as to the genotyping and analysis of the whole-genome association data.
The authors declare competing financial interests: details are available in the online version of the paper.
Funding was provided by deCODE Genetics/Amgen and at Emory by NIH grants UL1RR025008 from the Clinical and Translational Science Award program, R01HL089650-02, and Emory Neuroscience NINDS Core Facilities grant P30NS055077.