About the Authors

Benedikt Merz

benemerz@uni-bonn.de

Affiliations Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Ute Nöthlings

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Simone Wahl

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

Marjolein Haftenberger

Affiliation Robert Koch-Institut, Department of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Berlin, Germany

Anja Schienkiewitz

Affiliation Robert Koch-Institut, Department of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Berlin, Germany

Jerzy Adamski

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Karsten Suhre

Affiliations Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Rui Wang-Sattler

Affiliation Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Harald Grallert

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

Barbara Thorand

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

Tobias Pischon

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology Research Group, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany

Ursula Bachlechner

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Anna Floegel

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Annette Peters

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

Heiner Boeing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BM HB. Analyzed the data: BM SW MH UB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA KS RWS HG BT TP AP HB. Wrote the paper: BM. Provided critical revision of the manuscript: UN SW MH AS BT AF AP HB.