About the Authors

Martin Adam

martin.adam@unibas.ch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Medea Imboden

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Eva Boes

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Emmanuel Schaffner

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Nino Künzli

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Harish Chandra Phuleria

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Florian Kronenberg

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

Jean-Michel Gaspoz

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Primary Care and Emergency medicine, University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

David Carballo

Affiliation Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Nicole Probst-Hensch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NPH. Performed the experiments: NPH MA MI EB FK MI DC JMG HCP NK ES. Analyzed the data: MA MI EB NPH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NPH. Wrote the paper: NPH MA MI EB FK MI DC JMG HCP NK ES. Directly participated in the planning, execution, or analysis of the study and read, revised and approved the manuscript: NPH MA MI EB FK MI DC JMG HCP NK ES.