About the Authors

Alice J. Sommer

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alice.j.sommer@gmail.com (AJS); peters@helmholtz-muenchen.de (AP); cmueller@flatironinstitute.org (CLM)

Affiliations Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Munich, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Annette Peters

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

alice.j.sommer@gmail.com (AJS); peters@helmholtz-muenchen.de (AP); cmueller@flatironinstitute.org (CLM)

Affiliations Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Munich, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martina Rommel

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Josef Cyrys

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Harald Grallert

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany

Dirk Haller

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ZIEL - Institute for Food & Health, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany, Chair of Nutrition and Immunology, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany

Christian L. Müller

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

alice.j.sommer@gmail.com (AJS); peters@helmholtz-muenchen.de (AP); cmueller@flatironinstitute.org (CLM)

Affiliations Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Munich, Germany, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute, New York City, New York, United States of America

Marie-Abèle C. Bind

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.