Supervisors: Andres Metspalu, Head of the Estonian Genome Centre, Institute of Genomics, Research Professor of Genomics and Biobanking, Professor of Biotechnology in the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Tõnu Esko, Vice Director, Senior Research Fellow, Estonian Genome Center Science Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu
Opponent: Martina Cornel, Professor of Community Genetics and Public Health Genomics at the Clinical Genetics/Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands