About the Authors

Inga Schlecht

Inga.Schlecht@ukr.de

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Wolfram Gronwald

Affiliation Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Gundula Behrens

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Sebastian E. Baumeister

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Johannes Hertel

Affiliation German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Rostock/Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Jochen Hochrein

Affiliation Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Helena U. Zacharias

Affiliation Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Beate Fischer

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Peter J. Oefner

Affiliation Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Michael F. Leitzmann

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: IS WG PO BF ML. Data curation: IS. Formal analysis: IS GB SB J. Hertel. Methodology: IS WG J. Hochrein HZ. Software: IS. Supervision: ML. Visualization: IS. Writing – original draft: IS.