| Ani Manichaikul | University of Virginia, USA Center for Public Health and Genomics |
| Xin-Qun Wang | University of Virginia |
| Stephen S Rich | Center for Public Health and Genomics, University of Virginia |
| Jerome I Rotter | Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-university of california los angeles Medical Center, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences |
| Wendy S Post | Johns Hopkins University |
| Matthew J Budoff | Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-university of california los angeles Medical Center |