About the Authors

Maria Swanberg

Affiliations Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden, Neurodegeneration and Inflammation Genetics Unit, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Sweden

Fiona E. McGuigan

Affiliation Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden

Kaisa K. Ivaska

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Paul Gerdhem

Affiliations Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Orthopaedics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Kristina Åkesson

Kristina.Akesson@med.lu.se

Affiliations Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden, Department of Orthopaedics, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS KÅ. Performed the experiments: MS. Analyzed the data: MS. Wrote the paper: MS FEM KVI PG KÅ. Conduct of study: MS. Data collection: PG KÅ. Data interpretation: MS FEM KÅ.