About the Authors

Veerle Bieghs

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Pathology, Physiology and Clinical Genetics of Nutrition and Toxicology Research (NUTRIM) and Cardiovascular Research (CARIM) Institutes of Maastricht, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Patrick J. Van Gorp

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Pathology, Physiology and Clinical Genetics of Nutrition and Toxicology Research (NUTRIM) and Cardiovascular Research (CARIM) Institutes of Maastricht, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Kristiaan Wouters

Affiliation Univ Lille Nord de France; Inserm U1011; UDSL; Institut Pasteur de Lille; Lille, France

Tim Hendrikx

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Pathology, Physiology and Clinical Genetics of Nutrition and Toxicology Research (NUTRIM) and Cardiovascular Research (CARIM) Institutes of Maastricht, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Marion J. Gijbels

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Pathology, Physiology and Clinical Genetics of Nutrition and Toxicology Research (NUTRIM) and Cardiovascular Research (CARIM) Institutes of Maastricht, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Marc van Bilsen

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Pathology, Physiology and Clinical Genetics of Nutrition and Toxicology Research (NUTRIM) and Cardiovascular Research (CARIM) Institutes of Maastricht, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Jaap Bakker

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Pathology, Physiology and Clinical Genetics of Nutrition and Toxicology Research (NUTRIM) and Cardiovascular Research (CARIM) Institutes of Maastricht, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Christoph J. Binder

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Dieter Lütjohann

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Bart Staels

Affiliation Univ Lille Nord de France; Inserm U1011; UDSL; Institut Pasteur de Lille; Lille, France

Marten H. Hofker

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Ronit Shiri-Sverdlov

r.sverdlov@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Pathology, Physiology and Clinical Genetics of Nutrition and Toxicology Research (NUTRIM) and Cardiovascular Research (CARIM) Institutes of Maastricht, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VB PVG KW MH RS-S. Performed the experiments: VB PVG KW RS-S. Analyzed the data: VB PVG KW TH MG MvB JB CB DL BS MH RS-S. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG JB CB DL. Wrote the paper: VB RS-S.