A Missense Variant in the IL-6 Receptor and Protection From Peripheral Artery Disease

Affiliations

• ¹ Cardiovascular Medicine (M.G.L.), University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
• ² Department of Medicine (M.G.L., K.-M.C.), University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
• ³ Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA (M.G.L., K.-M.C., S.M.D.).
• ⁴ Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, FL (D.K.).
• ⁵ Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville (D.K.).
• ⁶ Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University LMU, Munich, Germany (M.K.G.).
• ⁷ Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (M.K.G.).
• ⁸ Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (M.K.G.).
• ⁹ Edith Nourse VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA (J.L.).
• ¹⁰ VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure, Salt Lake City, UT (J.L.).
• ¹¹ VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA (K.P.L., C.J.O.).
• ¹² Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (K.P.L., C.J.O.).
• ¹³ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA (K.P.L., C.J.O.).
• ¹⁴ Genetics (B.F.V.), University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
• ¹⁵ Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (B.F.V.), University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
• ¹⁶ Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA (B.F.V.).
• ¹⁷ Palo Alto VA Healthcare System, CA (T.L.A., P.S.T.).
• ¹⁸ Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; (T.L.A., P.S.T.).
• ¹⁹ Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (T.L.A., P.S.T.).
• ²⁰ Surgery (S.M.D.), University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.