Atrial fibrillation genetic risk differentiates cardioembolic stroke from other stroke subtypes
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- Received June 23, 2018
- Accepted in final form September 9, 2018
- First Published December 3, 2018.
Author Disclosures
- Sara L. Pulit, PhD,
- Lu-Chen Weng, PhD,
- Patrick F. McArdle, PhD,
- Ludovic Trinquart, PhD,
- Seung Hoan Choi, PhD,
- Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD,
- Jonathan Rosand, MD,
- Paul I. W. de Bakker, PhD,
- Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM,
- Patrick T. Ellinor, MD, PhD,
- Steven J. Kittner, MD,
- Steven A. Lubitz, MD, MPH* and
- Christopher D. Anderson, MD*
- on behalf of the Atrial Fibrillation Genetics Consortium and the International Stroke Genetics Consortium
- Sara L. Pulit, PhD,
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(1) Illumina, honoraria for speaking at an Illumina event at the American Society of Human Genetics (2015)
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(1) Illumina, honoraria for speaking at an Illumina event at the American Society of Human Genetics (2015) (same disclosure as above)
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- Lu-Chen Weng, PhD,
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I receive financial research support from American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Award 17POST33660226.
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- Patrick F. McArdle, PhD,
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(1) Regeneron
(1) NINDS, R01NS105150-01, Co-Investigator, 1/15/2018- 12/31/22 (2) NINDS, R01NS100178-01A1, Co-Investigator, 6/1/2017-2/28/22
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- Ludovic Trinquart, PhD,
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- Seung Hoan Choi, PhD,
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- Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD,
SAB, Non-profit: External Scientific Review Board, Cardiac Health Project (ICHP), Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
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Current Genetic Medicine Reports (Section editor, Cardiovascular Genetics) Frontiers in Neurology (Review Editor, Stroke)
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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
NIH, NS105150, MPI NIH, NS100178, MPI NIH, HL121007, MPI NIH, P30DK072488, MPI NIH, MH1D8148, CI NIH, NS086905, CI NIH, EB015611, CI NIH, HL137922, CI NIH, HL136574, CI
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- Jonathan Rosand, MD,
Pfizer, DSMB
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Lancet Neurology, editorial board member Stroke, editorial board member
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NIH/NINDS
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Boehringer Ingelheim, 2017
- Paul I. W. de Bakker, PhD,
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Senior Director, 2015-present
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- Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM,
Non-profit entity: ?Board: The NIH, NHLBI appointed me to serve on the Outside Safety and Monitoring Board for the NIH, NHLBI?s Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults [CARDIA] Study
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Honorarium From American Heart Association for serving as an Associate Editor for Circulation, 2004-2016. Served until 06/30/2016.
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Non-commercial: a) Boston University School of Medicine, Professor
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Grants: National Institutes of Health (NIH): R01HL092577; R01HL128914; American Heart Association (AHA)/NIH: P50HL120163; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: "Mobile Health Technology for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction" AHA: 18SFRN34150007
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Multilevel Mentoring: Boston University School of Medicine Accelerator Plan PI: Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM Period: 11/01/12-10/31/14 Agency: American Council on Education, Alfred P. Sloan Faculty Career Flexibility Award Specific Aims: 1. To create policies and programs that promote career flexibility throughout the life-course of faculty members? careers; 2. Create a midcareer longitudinal faculty development program.
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- Patrick T. Ellinor, MD, PhD,
Bayer AG Novartis Quest Diagnostics
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Bayer AG
This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health to Dr. Ellinor (1RO1HL092577, R01HL128914, K24HL105780).
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Dr. Ellinor is also supported by an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association (13EIA14220013) and by the Fondation Leducq (14CVD01).
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- Steven J. Kittner, MD,
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Editorial Board, Neuroepidemiology, 2000- present
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NINDS: R01NS100178, Co-PI, 2017-2022 NINDS: R01NS105150, Co-PI, 2017-2022 NINDS: 2U01NS036695, Site PI, 2016-2021 NINDS: R01NS086905, Site PI, 2015-2020 NINDS: R01NS100417, Site PI, 2017-2022
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- Steven A. Lubitz, MD, MPH* and
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Dr. Lubitz has consulted for Abbott, Quest Diagnostics, Bristol Myers Squibb.
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Dr. Lubitz has received sponsored research support from Bristol Myers Squibb, Bayer HealthCare, Biotronik, and Boehringer Ingelheim.
Dr. Lubitz is supported by NIH grant 1R01HL139731.
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Dr. Lubitz is supported by NIH grant 1R01HL139731. Dr. Lubitz is supported by a grant from the American Heart Association 18SFRN34250007, and a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award 2014105
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- Christopher D. Anderson, MD*
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ApoPharma, Inc.
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(1) NIH-NINDS K23 NS086873, PI (2) NIH-NINDS R01 NS103924, PI (3) American Heart Association 18SFRN34250007, Co-PI
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- From the Department of Genetics (S.L.P., P.I.W.d. B.), University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; P.I.W.d.B. is now with Computational Genomics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA; Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery (S.L.P.), The Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Program in Medical and Population Genetics (S.L.P., L.-C.W., S.H.C., J.R., P.T.E., S.A.L., C.D.A.), Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA; Cardiovascular Research Center (L.-C.W., P.T.E., S.A.L.), Center for Genomic Medicine (J.R., C.D.A.), J.P. Kistler Stroke Research Center (J.R., C.D.A.), and Cardiac Arrhythmia Service (P.T.E., S.A.L.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Department of Medicine (P.F.M., B.D.M.), Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study (L.T., E.J.B.); Department of Biostatistics (L.T.) and Department of Epidemiology (E.J.B.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center (B.D.M.), Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, MD; Cardiology Preventive Medicine Sections (E.J.B.), Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; Department of Neurology (S.J.K.), University of Maryland School of Medicine; and Department of Neurology (S.J.K.), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.
- Correspondence
Dr. Lubitz slubitz{at}mgh.harvard.edu or Dr. Anderson cdanderson{at}mgh.harvard.edu
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