About the Authors

Priit Paluoja

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Doctoral Programme in Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Competence Centre for Health Technologies, Tartu, Estonia

Hindrek Teder

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Competence Centre for Health Technologies, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, Department of Biomedicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Amin Ardeshirdavani

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Baran Bayindir

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Joris Vermeesch

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Andres Salumets

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Competence Centre for Health Technologies, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Kaarel Krjutškov

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Competence Centre for Health Technologies, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Priit Palta

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

priit.palta@gmail.com

Affiliations Competence Centre for Health Technologies, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Genome Centre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. GIPseq authors (A.A., B.B. and J.V.) performed all their computational analyses ’blindly’, without having any information about the analysed samples. They also did not participate in the analysis and interpretation of corresponding results.