About the Authors
- Lyudmyla Kedenko
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lyudmyla Kedenko, Claudia Lamina
* E-mail: Florian.Kronenberg@i-med.ac.at (FK); l.kedenko@salk.at (LK)
Affiliation University Clinic for Internal Medicine I, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Austria
- Claudia Lamina
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lyudmyla Kedenko, Claudia Lamina
Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Tobias Kiesslich
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Affiliation University Clinic for Internal Medicine I, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Austria
- Karen Kapur
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Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Sven Bergmann
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Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Dawn Waterworth
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Affiliation Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Philadelphia, United States of America
- Iris M. Heid
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Regensburg University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- H.-Erich Wichmann
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Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany
- Igor Kedenko
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Affiliation University Clinic for Internal Medicine I, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Austria
- Florian Kronenberg
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* E-mail: Florian.Kronenberg@i-med.ac.at (FK); l.kedenko@salk.at (LK)
¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Bernhard Paulweber
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation University Clinic for Internal Medicine I, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Austria
Competing Interests
Dawn Waterworth is a full time employee of GlaxoSmithKline. Florian Kronenberg is an Academic Editor of PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LK CL FK BP. Performed the experiments: LK IK FK. Analyzed the data: LK TK IK CL KK SB DW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BP LK IK FK IMH HEW KK SB DW. Wrote the paper: LK CL TK FK. Reviewed the manuscript: LK CL TK KK SB DW IMH HEW IK FK BP.