About the Authors

Sylviane de Viron

Sylviane.deviron@wiv-isp.be

Affiliations Operational Direction Public Health and Surveillance, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium, Institute for Public Health Genomics (IPHG), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Research Institute CAPHRI - School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Research Institute GROW - School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Johan Van der Heyden

Affiliation Operational Direction Public Health and Surveillance, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Elena Ambrosino

Affiliations Institute for Public Health Genomics (IPHG), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Research Institute CAPHRI - School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Marc Arbyn

Affiliation Operational Direction Public Health and Surveillance, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Angela Brand

Affiliations Institute for Public Health Genomics (IPHG), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Research Institute CAPHRI - School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Research Institute GROW - School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Herman Van Oyen

Affiliation Operational Direction Public Health and Surveillance, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDV. Performed the experiments: SDV JVDH. Analyzed the data: SDV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDV JVDH EA MA AB HVO. Wrote the paper: SDV JVDH EA MA AB HVO. Reading comments: JVDH EA MA AB HVO.