Rare variants in long non-coding RNAs are associated with blood lipid levels in the TOPMed Whole Genome Sequencing Study

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
• ² Cardiovascular Research Center and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³ Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
• ⁷ Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
• ⁸ Provost Office, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia, SC, USA.
• ¹⁰ Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX, USA.
• ¹² Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
• ¹³ Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
• ¹⁴ Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹⁵ Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹⁶ Department of Human Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• ¹⁷ Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• ¹⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA.
• ¹⁹ The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.
• ²⁰ The McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
• ²¹ Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ²² Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• ²³ Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ²⁴ Center for Human Genetics, University of Texas Health at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
• ²⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
• ²⁶ Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• ²⁷ New York Genome Center, New York, NY, USA.
• ²⁸ Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center, Houston, TX, USA.
• ²⁹ Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
• ³⁰ Tulane University Translational Science Institute, New Orleans, LA, USA.
• ³¹ Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA.
• ³² Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³³ Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL, USA.
• ³⁴ Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ³⁵ Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ³⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
• ³⁷ Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ³⁸ Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ³⁹ Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ⁴⁰ Psomagen, Inc. (formerly Macrogen USA), Rockville, MD, USA.
• ⁴¹ GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁴² The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁴³ NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Cophenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁴⁴ George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.
• ⁴⁵ Department of Human Genetics and Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• ⁴⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁴⁷ Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁴⁸ Ministry of Health, Apia, Samoa.
• ⁴⁹ Department of Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁵⁰ Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
• ⁵¹ Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
• ⁵² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁵³ Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
• ⁵⁴ Lutia i Puava ae Mapu i Fagalele, Apia, Samoa.
• ⁵⁵ National Health Research Institute (NHRI), Taiwan.
• ⁵⁶ Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ⁵⁷ Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA.
• ⁵⁸ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
• ⁵⁹ Illumina Laboratory Services, Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.
• ⁶⁰ Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.