About the Authors

Anita Kloss-Brandstätter

Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Gertraud Erhart

Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Claudia Lamina

Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Bernhard Meister

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics II, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Margot Haun

Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Stefan Coassin

Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Markus Seifert

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Andreas Klein-Franke

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics II, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Bernhard Paulweber

Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria

Lyudmyla Kedenko

Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria

Barbara Kollerits

Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Dorine W. Swinkels

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Genetic, Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Sita H. Vermeulen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Tessel E. Galesloot

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Florian Kronenberg

florian.kronenberg@i-med.ac.at (FK); guenter.weiss@i-med.ac.at (GW)

Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Günter Weiss

florian.kronenberg@i-med.ac.at (FK); guenter.weiss@i-med.ac.at (GW)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Competing Interests

Anita Kloss-Brandstätter and Florian Kronenberg are PLoS ONE Editorial Board members. Furthermore Anita Kloss-Brandstätter received funding from the “Österreichische Nationalbank.” Although this sounds like a commercial source, this is not a commercial source. It is kind of a state bank which started a fund at the time of their 150-year anniversary. This fund is supporting scientific projects which undergo a peer-review system. Decision about the funding is made by an independent panel of scientists. 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: AKB GW FK. Performed the experiments: AKB GE MS MH DS. Analyzed the data: AKB CL GE SC TG GW FK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BP LK BK FK AKF SV BM. Wrote the paper: AKB CL GW FK SC DS.