*Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Kidney Research Institute,
††Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, and
Departments of §§§§§Health Services and
******Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington;
†Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington;
Divisions of ‡Epidemiology and Community Health and
§§§§Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota;
§Vth Department of Medicine, Mannheim Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany;
‖Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon;
¶Department of Medicine and Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland;
**Geriatric Research and Education Clinical Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland;
‡‡Program in Genetics & Genome Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
§§Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy;
‖‖Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, and
‖‖‖Bioinformatics Core Facility, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden;
Departments of ¶¶Medical and Molecular Genetics and
****Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana;
***Department of Psychiatry, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center/GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Institutes for †††Community Medicine, Department Study of Health in Pomerania - Klinisch-Epidemiologische Forschung (SHIP-KEF), and
††††Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, and
‡‡‡‡Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany;
‡‡‡Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
§§§Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Nuclear Medicine, and
§§§§§§Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria;
¶¶¶Department of Epidemiology, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland;
‖‖‖‖Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
¶¶¶¶Department of Medicine, University of Cantabria, and Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Insituto de Investigacion Sanitaria, Santander, Spain;
*****Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine and
†††††Center for Translational Metabolism and Health, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois;
‡‡‡‡‡Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Division of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, King's College, London, United Kingdom;
‖‖‖‖‖Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington;
¶¶¶¶¶The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York;
††††††Department of Pediatrics and Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Torrance, California;
‡‡‡‡‡‡Synlab Academy, Synlab Services GmbH, Mannheim, Germany; and
‖‖‖‖‖‖Department of Genetics and Pharmacogenomics, Merck Research, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
C.R.-C., P.L.L., M.E.K., and C.M.N. contributed equally to this work.
I.H.de B. and B.K. jointly directed this work.
Correspondence: Dr. Cassianne Robinson-Cohen, Kidney Research Institute, University of Washington, Division of Nephrology, Box 359606, Seattle, WA 98104-2499. Email: [email protected]