About the Authors
- Carolin Jourdan
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Ann-Kristin Petersen
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Affiliation Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Christian Gieger
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Affiliation Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Angela Döring
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Thomas Illig
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Affiliation Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Rui Wang-Sattler
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Affiliation Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Christa Meisinger
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Annette Peters
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Jerzy Adamski
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Affiliations Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Chair of Experimental Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Cornelia Prehn
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Affiliation Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Karsten Suhre
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Affiliations Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, Education City, Qatar
- Elisabeth Altmaier
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Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Gabi Kastenmüller
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Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Werner Römisch-Margl
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Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Fabian J. Theis
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Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Jan Krumsiek
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Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- H.-Erich Wichmann
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Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Neuherberg, Germany, Klinikum Großhadern, Munich, Germany
- Jakob Linseisen
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* E-mail: j.linseisen@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CJ JL. Performed the experiments: JA CP RW-S WR-M. Analyzed the data: CJ A-KP EA GK JK JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TI RW-S AP JA CP KS H-EW AD WR-M CM. Wrote the paper: CJ JL JK. Statistical advice: A-KP CG JK FJT. Supervision: JL H-EW. Critical review of the manuscript: JL A-KP JK CP JA AD GK CM H-EW.