About the Authors

Marie-Josée J. Mangen

m.j.j.mangen@umcutrecht.nl

Affiliation Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Dietrich Plass

Affiliation Department of Public Health Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

Arie H. Havelaar

Affiliations Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Cheryl L. Gibbons

Affiliation Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, Institute for Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Alessandro Cassini

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Nikolai Mühlberger

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment, Department of Public Health and Health Technology Assessment, UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria

Alies van Lier

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Juanita A. Haagsma

Affiliation Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

R. John Brooke

Affiliation Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Taavi Lai

Affiliation Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Chiara de Waure

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Piotr Kramarz

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Mirjam E. E. Kretzschmar

Affiliations Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

on behalf of the BCoDE consortium

Membership of the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJM AH AC PK MK. Performed the experiments: MJM RJB AH. Analyzed the data: MJM AH JH PK MK. Wrote the paper: MJM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: DP AH CG AC NM AvL JH PK TL CdW PK MK Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: MJM DP AH CG AC NM AvL JH PK TL CdW PK MK other BcoDE Consortium members.