Nat. Genet.; doi:10.1038/ng.3768; corrected online 20 February 2017

In the version of this article initially published online, the name of Chiara Batini was misspelled as Chiara Battini in the list of collaborators affiliated with International Consortium of Blood Pressure (ICBP) 1000G Analyses. The error has been corrected in the print, PDF and HTML versions of this article.