About the Authors
- Erfan Aref-Eshghi
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- Yuhua Zhang
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- Deborah Hart
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Affiliation Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Ana M. Valdes
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Affiliation Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Andrew Furey
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- Glynn Martin
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- Guang Sun
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- Proton Rahman
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- Nigel Arden
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Affiliation Musculoskeletal Epidemiology and Biobank, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Tim D. Spector
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Affiliation Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Guangju Zhai
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* E-mail: guangju.zhai@med.mun.ca
Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GZ EAE. Performed the experiments: DH AMV NA TDS. Analyzed the data: EAE GZ YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GZ EAE AF GM GS PR. Wrote the paper: EAE GZ. Revision: YZ DH AMV AF GM GS PR NA TDS GZ.