About the Authors

Gaurav Garg

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Garg, Jitender Kumar, Fiona E. McGuigan

Affiliation Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University and Department of Orthopaedics, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Jitender Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Garg, Jitender Kumar, Fiona E. McGuigan

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Fiona E. McGuigan

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaurav Garg, Jitender Kumar, Fiona E. McGuigan

Affiliation Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University and Department of Orthopaedics, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Martin Ridderstråle

Affiliation Clinical Obesity Research, Department of Endocrinology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Paul Gerdhem

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Orthopaedics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Holger Luthman

Affiliation Medical Genetics Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Kristina Åkesson

Kristina.Akesson@med.lu.se

Affiliation Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University and Department of Orthopaedics, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KÅ PG FM JK HL. Performed the experiments: GG JK. Analyzed the data: GG JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KÅ FM HL GG JK. Wrote the paper: GG JK FM. Revising and Approving manuscript: GG JK FM HL PG MR KÅ.