About the Authors

Zhonghao Yu

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

Gabi Kastenmüller

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Ying He

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China, Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Petra Belcredi

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Gabriele Möller

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

Cornelia Prehn

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

Joaquim Mendes

Affiliations Solid State NMR Spectroscopy and Center for Integrated Protein Science, Department Chemie, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany, Institute of Structural Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Simone Wahl

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

Werner Roemisch-Margl

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Uta Ceglarek

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Alexey Polonikov

Affiliation Department of Biology, Medical Genetics and Ecology, Kursk State Medical University, Kursk, Russian Federation

Norbert Dahmen

Affiliation Department for Psychiatry, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Holger Prokisch

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

Lu Xie

Affiliation Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China

Yixue Li

Affiliations Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China, Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

H. -Erich Wichmann

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Annette Peters

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Florian Kronenberg

Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Karsten Suhre

Affiliations Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Education City - Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar

Jerzy Adamski

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Genetik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Thomas Illig

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

Rui Wang-Sattler

rui.wang-sattler@helmholtz-muenchen.de

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: H-EW KS JA TI RW-S. Performed the experiments: ZY GK YH PB GM CP WR-M RW-S. Analyzed the data: ZY GM YH KS RW-S. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW UC A. Polonikov ND HP LX YL TI. Wrote the paper: ZY YH GM CP JM A. Peters FK JA RW-S.