About the Authors

Lyudmyla Kedenko

Contributed equally to this work with: Lyudmyla Kedenko, Claudia Lamina

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

Contributed equally to this work with: Lyudmyla Kedenko, Claudia Lamina

Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Tobias Kiesslich

Affiliation University Clinic for Internal Medicine I, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Austria

Karen Kapur

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Sven Bergmann

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Dawn Waterworth

Affiliation Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Philadelphia, United States of America

Iris M. Heid

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

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

Affiliation University Clinic for Internal Medicine I, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Austria

Florian Kronenberg

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

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.