About the Authors
- Krista Fischer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Krista Fischer, Johannes Kettunen, Peter Würtz
* E-mail: krista.fischer@ut.ee (KF); peter.wurtz@computationalmedicine.fi (PW)
Affiliation The Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Johannes Kettunen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Krista Fischer, Johannes Kettunen, Peter Würtz
Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Computational Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Peter Würtz
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Contributed equally to this work with: Krista Fischer, Johannes Kettunen, Peter Würtz
* E-mail: krista.fischer@ut.ee (KF); peter.wurtz@computationalmedicine.fi (PW)
Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Computational Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Toomas Haller
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Affiliation The Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Aki S. Havulinna
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Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Antti J. Kangas
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Affiliation Computational Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Pasi Soininen
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Affiliations Computational Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, NMR Metabolomics Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Tõnu Esko
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Affiliations The Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Genomics, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Mari-Liis Tammesoo
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Affiliation The Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Reedik Mägi
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Affiliation The Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Steven Smit
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Affiliation The Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Aarno Palotie
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Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Samuli Ripatti
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Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Veikko Salomaa
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Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Mika Ala-Korpela
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¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliations Computational Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, NMR Metabolomics Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, Computational Medicine, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Markus Perola
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¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliations The Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Andres Metspalu
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¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliations The Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Competing Interests
PW AJK PS and MAK are shareholders of Brainshake Ltd., a startup company offering NMR-based metabolite profiling. All other authors declare that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KF JK PW VS MAK MP AM. Performed the experiments: AJK PS MAK. Analyzed the data: KF JK PW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH ASH AJK TE RM SR. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: KF JK PW. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KF JK PW TH ASH VS. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: KF JK PW TH ASH AJK PS TE MLT RM SS AP SR VS MAK MP AM. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: KF JK PW TH ASH AJK PS TE MLT RM SS AP SR VS MAK MP AM. Enrolled patients: MLT SS AP VS MP AM.