About the Authors

Linda W. M. van Kerkhof

Contributed equally to this work with: Linda W. M. van Kerkhof, Kirsten C. G. Van Dycke

Affiliation Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Kirsten C. G. Van Dycke

Contributed equally to this work with: Linda W. M. van Kerkhof, Kirsten C. G. Van Dycke

Affiliations Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Genetics, Center for Biomedical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Eugene H. J. M. Jansen

Affiliation Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Piet K. Beekhof

Affiliation Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Conny T. M. van Oostrom

Affiliation Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Tatjana Ruskovska

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Sciences, Goce Delcev University, Stip, Republic of Macedonia

Nevenka Velickova

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Sciences, Goce Delcev University, Stip, Republic of Macedonia

Nikola Kamcev

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Sciences, Goce Delcev University, Stip, Republic of Macedonia

Jeroen L. A. Pennings

Affiliation Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Harry van Steeg

Affiliations Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Wendy Rodenburg

wendy.rodenburg@rivm.nl

Affiliation Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LvK KVD EJ WR HS. Performed the experiments: PB CvO TR NV NK. Analyzed the data: LvK KVD EJ JP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TR NV NK JP. Wrote the paper: LvK KVD WR HS.