Genetically Predicted Lipid Traits, Diabetes Liability, and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in African Ancestry Individuals: A Mendelian Randomization Study

Affiliations

• ¹ The African Computational Genomics (TACG) Research Group, Entebbe, Uganda (O.S., S.F.).
• ² Medical Rsrch Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, UK (E.A.W.S., S.B.).
• ³ Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (E.A.W.S.).
• ⁴ Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (E.A.W.S.).
• ⁵ Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, UK (S.B.).
• ⁶ Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Centre national de la Recherche scientifique et technologique (CNRST), Nanoro, Burkina Faso (P.R.B.).
• ⁷ Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Johannesburg, South Africa (P.R.B.).
• ⁸ Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (P.R.B.).
• ⁹ MRC/UVRI & LSHTM, Entebbe, Uganda (S.F.).
• ¹⁰ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (S.F.).
• ¹¹ H3Africa Bioinformatics Network (H3ABioNet) Node, Center for Genomics Research and Innovation, NABDA/FMST, Abuja, Nigeria (S.F.).
• ¹² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK (D.G.).
• ¹³ Chief Scientific Advisor Office, Research and Early Development, Novo Nordisk, Copenhagen, Denmark (D.G.).