Funding for this research was provided by:
National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (2016YFC1301003)
the National Science Foundation of China (30900612, 81800231 and 81873484)
Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LZ16H020001)
the grant of Medical Science Research Foundation of Zhejiang Province (2018ZD017)
grants from the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (LY15H020002 and Y17H020020)
the grant from the Department of Science and Technology, Zhejiang Province (LGF19H020011)
Article History
Received: 13 May 2020
Accepted: 21 February 2021
First Online: 9 March 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Not applicable. This study used publicly available genome-wide association study summary statistics. All participants of the original studies included in the Atrial Fibrillation Consortium had provided informed written consent. No administrative permissions were required to access the data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.