6 CHAPTER 6 132 Acknowlegdements: We thank the patients for their participation in this project. The NordTrøndelag Health Study (The HUNT Study) is a collaboration between HUNT Research Centre (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Trøndelag County Council, Central Norway Regional Health Authority, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The genotyping was financed by the National Institute of health (NIH), University of Michigan, The Norwegian Research council, and Central Norway Regional Health Authority and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The genotype quality control and imputation has been conducted by the K.G. Jebsen center for genetic epidemiology, Department of public health and nursing, Faculty of medicine and health sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). We express our gratitude to all individuals who participate in the Netherlands Epidemiology in Obesity study. We are grateful to all participating general practitioners for inviting eligible participants. We also thank P. van Beelen and all research nurses for collecting the data and P. Noordijk and her team for sample handling and storage and I. de Jonge, MSc for data management of the NEO study. This work was supported by the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (grant no. 2015089 to J.A.Z.), and grants of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, i.e. the Center of Medical System Biology established by the Netherlands Genomics Initiative/ Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (to A.M.J.M.v.d.M.), Spinoza 2009 (to M.D.F.) and EU-funded FP7 “EUROHEADPAIN” (grant no. 6026337 to, M.D.F., G.M.T, and A.M.J.M.v.d.M.). The genotyping of Dutch and Norwegian case samples was provided by the Genomics Core Facility (GCF), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). GCF is funded by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at NTNU and Central Norway Regional Health Authority. The NEO study is supported by the participating Departments, the Division and the Board of Directors of the Leiden University Medical Centre, and by the Leiden University, Research Profile Area ‘Vascular and Regenerative Medicine’. The funding organizations had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Author's contributions: A.V.E.H., B.S.W., R.N., E.T., T.F.H., R.H.J., M.D.F., J-A.Z., G.M.T., and A.M.J.M.v.d.M. contributed to the conception and design of the study. A.V.E.H., B.S.W., R.N., L.S.V., S.B., L.J.A.K., I.d.B., F.R.R., K.W.v.D., E.O.C., C.F., E.S.K., L.F.T. , R.F. and P.P-R. contributed to the acquisition and analysis of data. A.V.E.H., B.S.W. and R.N. contributed to drafting the text and preparing the figures.
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