About the Authors

Maha Al-Asmakh

Contributed equally to this work with: Maha Al-Asmakh, Jan-Bernd Stukenborg

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Biomedical Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Jan-Bernd Stukenborg

Contributed equally to this work with: Maha Al-Asmakh, Jan-Bernd Stukenborg

Affiliation Department of Women's and Children's Health, Paediatric Endocrinology Unit, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Ahmed Reda

Affiliation Department of Women's and Children's Health, Paediatric Endocrinology Unit, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Farhana Anuar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Mona-Lisa Strand

Affiliation Department of Women's and Children's Health, Paediatric Endocrinology Unit, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Lars Hedin

Affiliation Sidra Medical and Research Center, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Doha, Qatar

Sven Pettersson

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, LKC School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Olle Söder

Olle.Soder@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Women's and Children's Health, Paediatric Endocrinology Unit, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAA JBS SP OS. Performed the experiments: MAA JBS AR FA MLS. Analyzed the data: MAA JBS AR FA MLS LH SP OS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP OS. Wrote the paper: MAA JBS AR FA MLS LH SP OS.