About the Authors
- Sabine Siegert
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* E-mail: sabine.siegert@uni-koeln.de
Affiliations Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Section of Epidemiology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Zhonghao Yu
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Affiliation Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz-Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
- Rui Wang-Sattler
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Affiliation Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz-Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
- Thomas Illig
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Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz-Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, Hannover Unified Biobank, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Jerzy Adamski
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Affiliation Genome Analysis Center, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
- Jochen Hampe
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Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
- Susanna Nikolaus
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Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
- Stefan Schreiber
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Affiliations Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany, PopGen Biobank, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
- Michael Krawczak
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Affiliations PopGen Biobank, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Michael Nothnagel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Nothnagel, Ute Nöthlings
Affiliations Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Ute Nöthlings
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Nothnagel, Ute Nöthlings
Affiliations Institute of Experimental Medicine, Section of Epidemiology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany, PopGen Biobank, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Nutritional Epidemiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: S. Siegert ZY RWS MK MN UN. Performed the experiments: S. Siegert MK MN UN. Analyzed the data: S. Siegert. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA TI JH SN S. Schreiber. Wrote the manuscript: S. Siegert MK MN UN.