About the Authors
- Lavinia Paternoster
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lavinia Paternoster, Mattias Lorentzon, Terho Lehtimäki, Joel Eriksson
Affiliations MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Mattias Lorentzon
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lavinia Paternoster, Mattias Lorentzon, Terho Lehtimäki, Joel Eriksson
Affiliation Center for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Terho Lehtimäki
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lavinia Paternoster, Mattias Lorentzon, Terho Lehtimäki, Joel Eriksson
Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Joel Eriksson
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lavinia Paternoster, Mattias Lorentzon, Terho Lehtimäki, Joel Eriksson
Affiliation Center for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Mika Kähönen
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Olli Raitakari
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Affiliations Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Marika Laaksonen
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Affiliation Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Harri Sievänen
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Affiliation The UKK Institute for Health Promotion Research, Tampere, Finland
- Jorma Viikari
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- Dan Mellström
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Affiliation Center for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Magnus Karlsson
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Affiliation Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Orthopaedics, Lund University, Skane University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
- Östen Ljunggren
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Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
- Elin Grundberg
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Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Canada
- John P. Kemp
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Affiliations MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Adrian Sayers
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Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Maria Nethander
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Affiliation Genomics Core Facility, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- David M. Evans
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliations MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Liesbeth Vandenput
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Center for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Jon H. Tobias
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Claes Ohlsson
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* E-mail: claes.ohlsson@medic.gu.se
¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Center for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: L Paternoster, M Lorentzon, T Lehtimäki, M Kähönen, M Laaksonen, H Sievänen, J Viikari, D Mellström, E Grundberg, M Karlsson, DM Evans, L Vandenput, JH Tobias, C Ohlsson. Performed the experiments: L Paternoster, E Grundberg, M Lorentzon, T Lehtimäki, M Kähönen, O Raitakari, J Viikari, M Laaksonen, L Vandenput, C Ohlsson. Analyzed the data: L Paternoster, T Lehtimäki, J Eriksson, L-P Lyytikäinen, JP Kemp, A Sayers, M Nethander, C Ohlsson. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M Lorentzon, T Lehtimäki, J Eriksson, O Raitakari, E Grundberg, Ö Ljunggren, M Laaksonen, H Sievänen, J Viikari, L-P Lyytikäinen, D Mellström, M Karlsson, JP Kemp, DM Evans, JH Tobias, C Ohlsson. Wrote the paper: L Paternoster, DM Evans, L Vandeput, JH Tobias, C Ohlsson.