Common Genetic Variation in Relation to Brachial Vascular Dimensions and Flow-Mediated Vasodilation

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine (M.D., S.B.F.), University of Medicine Greifswald, Germany.
• ² DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Germany (M.D., A.T., U.V., M.N., H.V., S.B.F.).
• ³ Department of Medicine, Sections of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, MA (N.M.H.).
• ⁴ Department of General & Interventional Cardiology, University of Heart Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany (C.M., T.Z., S.B., R.B.S.).
• ⁵ DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Germany (C.M., T.Z., S.B., R.B.S.).
• ⁶ Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Epidemiology, & Health Services (N.L.S., B.M.P.), University of Washington, WA.
• ⁷ Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (N.L.S., B.M.P.).
• ⁸ Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Department of Veteran Affairs Office of Research and Development, WA (N.L.S.).
• ⁹ Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden (S.G., L.L., E.I.).
• ¹⁰ Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, and Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland (T.L., L.-P.L.).
• ¹¹ Department SHIP/Clinical-Epidemiological Research, Institute for Community Medicine (A.T., H.V.), University of Medicine Greifswald, Germany.
• ¹² Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, CA (X.L.).
• ¹³ Department of Clinical Physiology & Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Finland (O.T.R.).
• ¹⁴ Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Finland (O.T.R.).
• ¹⁵ Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics & Functional Genomics (U.V.), University of Medicine Greifswald, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Biostatistics (B.M.), University of Washington, WA.
• ¹⁷ Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (A.P.M.).
• ¹⁸ Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, and Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland (M.K.).
• ¹⁹ Department of Clinical Physiology, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center-Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland (M.K.).
• ²⁰ Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine (R.N.L.), University of Washington, WA.
• ²¹ Preventive Cardiology and Preventive Medicine, Center for Cardiology (P.S.W.), Department of Internal Medicine 2, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.
• ²² Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (P.S.W.), Department of Internal Medicine 2, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.
• ²³ DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Rhine-Main, Mainz, Germany (P.S.W., T.M.).
• ²⁴ Institute of Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine (M.N.), University of Medicine Greifswald, Germany.
• ²⁵ Center for Cardiology (T.M.), Department of Internal Medicine 2, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.
• ²⁶ Department of Research, Cardiovascular Engineering Inc., Norwood, MA (G.F.M.).
• ²⁷ Department of Research, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, The Big Data Institute (C.M.L.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
• ²⁸ Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine (C.M.L.), University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
• ²⁹ Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (C.M.L.).
• ³⁰ Boston University and the NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, MA (M.G.L., E.J.B.).
• ³¹ Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, MA (M.G.L.).
• ³² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA (E.I.).
• ³³ Stanford Cardiovascular Institute (E.I.), Stanford University, CA.
• ³⁴ Stanford Diabetes Research Center (E.I.), Stanford University, CA.
• ³⁵ Cardiovascular Medicine Department, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC (D.H.).
• ³⁶ Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA (E.J.B.).