We kindly ask you to attach the following banner to your manuscript using Covid data from the Lifelines Corona Research. Please see this publication as an example on how to use the banner https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29198723/,you could add ‘Lifelines Corona Research Initiative’ to the author list. The list below gives a detailed description of the authors involved and their affiliation.

Lifelines Corona Research Initiative: HM Boezen¹, Jochen O. Mierau², ³, H. Lude Franke⁴, Jackie Dekens⁴,⁶, Patrick Deelen⁴, Pauline Lanting⁴, Judith M. Vonk¹, Ilja Nolte¹, Anil P.S. Ori⁴,⁵, Annique Claringbould⁴, Floranne Boulogne⁴, Marjolein X.L. Dijkema⁴, Henry H. Wiersma⁴, Robert Warmerdam⁴, Soesma A. Jankipersadsing⁴, Irene van Blokland⁴,⁷.

¹ Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands ² Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands ³ Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health, Groningen, The Netherlands ⁴ Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands ⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands ⁶ Center of Development and Innovation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands ⁷ Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

For this proposal, nutrient data based on the Lifelines FFQ is requested. This derivate data is generated by the Department of Human Nutrition, WUR, which will be informed by Lifelines about this request. Please refer to the following reference in publications on this data: “Siebelink, E., Geelen, A., & de Vries, J. H. (2011). Self-reported energy intake by FFQ compared with actual energy intake to maintain body weight in 516 adults. British journal of nutrition, 106(2), 274-281.”

For this proposal, the Gender index is requested. This derivate data is generated by the University Medical Center Groningen, UMCG. Please refer to the following reference in publications on this data: “Ballering A.V., Bonvanie I.J., olde Hartman T.C., Monden R., Rosmalen J.G.M. (2020) Gender and sex independently associate with common somatic symptoms and lifetime prevalence of chronic disease. Social Science & Medicine.”

For this proposal, the Lifelines Diet Score (LLDS) is requested. This derivate data is generated by the University Medical Center Groningen, UMCG, which will be informed by Lifelines about this request. Please refer to the following reference in publications on this data: “Vinke, P. C., Corpeleijn, E., Dekker, L. H., Jacobs, D. R., Navis, G., & Kromhout, D. (2018). Development of the food-based Lifelines Diet Score (LLDS) and its application in 129,369 Lifelines participants. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 72(8), 1111-1119.”

For this proposal, the sleep index variables are requested. This derivative data is generated by the Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus MC. Please refer to the following reference in publications on this data: “Kocevska, D., Lysen, T. S., Dotinga, A., Koopman-Verhoeff, M. E., Luijk, M. P., Antypa, N., … & Tiemeier, H. (2020). Sleep characteristics across the lifespan in 1.1 million people from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nature human behaviour, 1-10.”

Vitamin D data based on the Lifelines data is requested. This data is generated by the Department of Cardiology (UMCG). Rudolf de Boer has agreed that these data may be used for the purpose of the research questions as stated in the researcher's proposal. In publications on these data a reference should be made to Meems et al. ‘Low levels of vitamin D are associated with mutimorbidity: Results from the Lifelines Cohort Study.’ Annals of Medicine 2015; 47: 474-481.

For this proposal, genetic data from Lifelines-DEEP are requested. This data is generated by the Genetics department under supervision of prof. dr. Lude Franke (l.h.franke@umcg.nl). We kindly ask you to attach the following banner and acknowledgement to your manuscript using DEEP data from the Lifelines DEEP Cohort. Please see this publication as an example on how to use the banner https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29198723/, you can add ‘Lifelines DEEP Cohort’ to the author list. The list below gives a detailed description of the authors involved and their affiliation.

Lifelines DEEP Cohort: Lude Franke1, Sasha Zhernakova1, Jingyuan Fu1, Morris Swertz1, Cisca Wijmenga1

1 Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands

Acknowledgements Generation and management of Lifelines Deep data is supported by an ERC Advanced Grant to Cisca Wijmenga, ERC Starting Grant to Lude Franke and Sasha Zhernakova, a VIDI grant to Lude Franke, Jingyuan Fu and Morris Swertz and several other subsidies from NWO / ZonMW.

Reference (methylation): Bonder et al, Nat. Genet. (2017) Disease variants alter transcription factor levels and methylation of their binding sites; doi: 10.1038/ng.3721