About the Authors

Reijo Laaksonen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: reijo.laaksonen@helsinki.fi (RL); matej.oresic@vtt.fi (MO)

Affiliation Research Unit, University Hospital of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Mikko Katajamaa

Affiliation Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Hannu Päivä

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Marko Sysi-Aho

Affiliation VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland

Lilli Saarinen

Affiliation Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Päivi Junni

Affiliation Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Dieter Lütjohann

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Joél Smet

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology and Metabolism, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Rudy Van Coster

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology and Metabolism, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Tuulikki Seppänen-Laakso

Affiliation VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland

Terho Lehtimäki

Affiliations Laboratory of Atherosclerosis Genetics, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Tampere, Finland, Centre for Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Juhani Soini

Affiliation Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Matej Orešič

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: reijo.laaksonen@helsinki.fi (RL); matej.oresic@vtt.fi (MO)

Affiliation VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland

Competing Interests

Drs. Orešič, Laaksonen, Päivä, and Lehtimäki are named inventors in a patent application to use metabolomics technology for screening of myopathy risk.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MO RL. Performed the experiments: TS HP JS. Analyzed the data: MO RL MK MS LS PJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MO TS HP DL JS Rv TL JS. Wrote the paper: MO RL MK MS.