About the Authors

Slavica Pecioska

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

M. Carola Zillikens

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Peter Henneman

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Pieter J. Snijders

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ben A. Oostra

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Cornelia M. van Duijn

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Yurii S. Aulchenko

i.aoultchenko@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SD RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP BAO CMvD YA. Performed the experiments: SP PH. Analyzed the data: SP PH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCZ PJS BAO CMvD. Wrote the paper: SP YA.