About the Authors

Sven Knüppel

sven.knueppel@dife.de

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

Klaus Rohde

Affiliation Exp. Genetics of Cardiovascular Diseases, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany

Karina Meidtner

Affiliation Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Nuthetal, Germany

Dagmar Drogan

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

Hermann-Georg Holzhütter

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Heiner Boeing

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

Eva Fisher

Affiliation Administrative Office of the Commission on Genetic Testing, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HB. Analyzed the data: SK KR EF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK KR. Wrote the paper: SK KR EF. Statistical expertise: KM DD. Interpretation of data and revision of manuscript: SK KR KM DD EF HGH HB.