Genetic insights into resting heart rate and its role in cardiovascular disease

Funding Information: We thank all participants for their participation and valuable contributions. This research has been conducted using the UK Biobank Resource under application number 12010. The work of N.V. was supported by NWO VENI grant 016.186.125. We thank 23andMe and the 23andMe Research Team for their contribution sharing their data and performing the GWAS analysis in the 23andMe cohort. P.V. received an unrestricted grant from GlaxoSmithkline to build the CoLaus study. N.J.T. is a Wellcome Trust Investigator (202802/Z/16/Z), is the PI of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (MRC & WT 217065/Z/19/Z), is supported by the University of Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC-1215-2001), the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (MC_UU_00011/1) and works within the CRUK Integrative Cancer Epidemiology Program (C18281/A29019). A detailed list of acknowledgements and funding is provided in Supplementary Data per cohort. We also thank all individuals that contributed to the generation of software programs, algorithms and genetic summary statistics. Support for title page creation and format was provided by AuthorArranger, a tool developed at the National Cancer Institute. Authors involved in the funding of the cohorts are listed below. Meta-analyses, Lifelines, PREVEND, UK Biobank: P.v.d.H.; ADDITION-PRO: T.H.; ADVANCE: C.I.; ADVANCE: T.A.; AGES: L.Launer, V.G.; ASCOT: P.Sever, P.B.M.; BC1936: N.G.; BioMe: E.P.B., R.J.F.L.; BRIGHT: P.B.M.; CHS: B.M.P.; CoLaus: P.V.; Croatia-Korcula: O.P., C.H.; DCCT/EDIC: D.R., The DCCT/EDIC Research Group, A.D.P.; DESIR: B.B., P.F.; DGI: L.G.; EPIC-Norfolk: N.J.W.; ERF: C.M.v.D.; Fenland: N.J.W.; FINCAVAS: M.K.; Finrisk: M.P.; FUSION: M.B.; GENOA: P.A.P., S.L.R.K.; GerMIFSs: H.Schunkert, J.E.; GoDARTS: C.N.A.P; GOOD: M.L., C.O.; HBCS: J.G.E.; HERITAGE: T.R., D.C.R., C.B.; HPFS / NHS: P.K.; HRS: D.R.Weir; HYPERGENES: K.S.S., D.C.; InCHIANTI: S.Bandinelli, L.Ferrucci; INGI-CARL: M.P.C.; INGI-FVG: G.G.; JHS: A.Correa; KORA F3: T.M., S.K.; KORA S4: ...