About the Authors

Lise Lotte N. Husemoen

lloh@glo.regionh.dk

Affiliation Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup, Denmark

Torben Jørgensen

Affiliations Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup, Denmark, Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Knut Borch-Johnsen

Affiliation Hagedorn Research Institute and Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark

Torben Hansen

Affiliations Hagedorn Research Institute and Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark, Faculty of Health Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Oluf Pedersen

Affiliations Hagedorn Research Institute and Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark, Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Allan Linneberg

Affiliation Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LLNH AL. Analyzed the data: LLNH AL. Wrote the paper: LLNH. Interpretation of results: LLNH. Principal investigator of the Inter99 study and responsible for data collection: TJ KBJ. Interpretation of data: TJ KBJ TH OP AL. Revision of the paper: TJ KBJ TH OP AL. Responsible for the genotype analyses: TH OP.