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- February 29, 2016.
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- Peter Würtz1,#,
- Sarah Cook2,
- Qin Wang1,3,
- Mika Tiainen1,3,
- Tuulia Tynkkynen1,3,
- Antti J. Kangas1,
- Pasi Soininen1,3,
- Jaana Laitinen4,
- Jorma Viikari5,
- Mika Kähönen6,
- Terho Lehtimäki7,
- Markus Perola8,9,10,
- Stefan Blankenberg11,12,
- Tanja Zeller11,12,
- Satu Männistö8,
- Veikko Salomaa8,
- Marjo-Riitta Järvelin13,14,
- Olli T. Raitakari15,16,
- Mika Ala-Korpela1,3,17,18* and
- David A Leon2,19*
- 1Computational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu and Biocenter Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- 2Department of Non-Communicable Diseases Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- 3NMR Metabolomics Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- 4Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
- 5Division of Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- 6Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
- 7Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and School of Medicine, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
- 8National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- 9Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- 10University of Tartu, Estonian Genome Center, Tartu, Estonia
- 11Clinic for General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- 12German Center for Cardiovascular Research, partner site Hamburg, Lübeck, Kiel, Germany
- 13Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- 14Center for Life Course Health Research and Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- 15Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- 16Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- 17Computational Medicine, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- 18Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- 19Department of Community Medicine, UiT Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
- ↵#Corresponding author: Peter Würtz, Computational Medicine, University of Oulu, Finland, Aapistie 5A, PO Box 5000, 90014 University of Oulu, Finland; peter.wurtz{at}computationalmedicine.fi; Phone: +358-504670900