Genomic DNA was extracted from the peripheral blood collected at week 0 (Macherey-Nagel kit, NucleoSpin Blood XL, Düren, Germany; or with standard method).
Two hundred and eighty-two PHSS patients were genotyped using the Illumina Human1M-Duo array (Illumina Inc, San Diego, California, USA) within HYPERGENES project [19 (link)] and 119 using the Illumina HumanOmniExpress array within InterOmics project (http://www.interomics.eu/).
Two hundred and fifteen HCTZ-Milan samples were genotyped using the Illumina Human1M-Duo array within HYPERGENES project [19 (link)].
The imputation was performed using Minimac [20 (link)] and 1000 Genomes haplotypes as reference (release March 2012). Imputed single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with low imputation quality (Rsq < 0.8) were not used in the association analysis. Genotyping and imputation details are in Methods S5 (Supplemental Digital Content, http://links.lww.com/HJH/A467).