About the Authors
- Nicole Bender
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* E-mail: nbender@ispm.unibe.ch
Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Noëmi Allemann
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Diana Marek
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Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Peter Vollenweider
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Gérard Waeber
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Vincent Mooser
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Affiliation GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Matthias Egger
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Murielle Bochud
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Competing Interests
The authors have the following competing interest: Vincent Mooser is an employee of GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors′ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NB MB. Performed the experiments: NB NA GW VM PV. Analyzed the data: NB MB DM ME. Wrote the paper: NB MB ME.