About the Authors

Juulia Jylhävä

Contributed equally to this work with: Juulia Jylhävä, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen

juulia.jylhava@uta.fi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen

Contributed equally to this work with: Juulia Jylhävä, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Mika Kähönen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Nina Hutri-Kähönen

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Johannes Kettunen

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Jorma Viikari

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Olli T. Raitakari

Affiliations Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Terho Lehtimäki

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Mikko Hurme

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, Department of Microbiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: JJ LPL. Analyzed the data: JJ LPL JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TL MH JV OTR MK NHK. Wrote the paper: JJ LPL.