About the Authors

Joel Eriksson

Affiliation Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Robin Haring

Affiliations University Medicine Greifswald, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Greifswald, Germany, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Niels Grarup

Affiliation The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Liesbeth Vandenput

Affiliation Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Henri Wallaschofski

Affiliation University Medicine Greifswald, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Greifswald, Germany

Erik Lorentzen

Affiliation Bioinformatics Core Facility, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Torben Hansen

Affiliation The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Dan Mellström

Affiliation Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Oluf Pedersen

Affiliation The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Matthias Nauck

Affiliation University Medicine Greifswald, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Greifswald, Germany

Mattias Lorentzon

Affiliations Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Lise Lotte Nystrup Husemoen

Affiliation Research Centre for Prevention and Health, the Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark

Henry Völzke

Affiliation University Medicine Greifswald, Institute for Community Medicine, Greifswald, Germany

Magnus Karlsson

Affiliation Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Orthopaedics and Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital (SUS), Malmö, Sweden

Sebastian E. Baumeister

Affiliations University Medicine Greifswald, Institute for Community Medicine, Greifswald, Germany, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Allan Linneberg

Affiliations Research Centre for Prevention and Health, the Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Clinical Experimental Research, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Claes Ohlsson

claes.ohlsson@medic.gu.se

Affiliation Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JE RH AL CO. Data curation: JE RH AL CO. Formal analysis: JE RH NG LV HW EL TH DM OP MN ML LLNH HV MK SEB AL CO. Funding acquisition: RH AL CO. Investigation: JE EL CO. Methodology: JE RH LV AL CO. Project administration: JE RH AL CO. Resources: JE RH LV AL CO. Software: JE EL. Supervision: JE RH AL CO. Validation: JE RH AL CO. Visualization: JE RH AL CO. Writing – original draft: JE RH LV AL CO. Writing – review & editing: JE RH NG LV HW EL TH DM OP MN ML LLNH HV MK SEB AL CO.