About the Authors

Vipin Gupta

chandakgrc@ccmb.res.in (GRC); udaiig@gmail.com (VG)

Affiliations South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India

Donipadi Guru Vinay

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Hyderabad, India

Ulla Sovio

Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Sajjad Rafiq

Affiliation University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Madamchetty Venkata Kranthi Kumar

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Hyderabad, India

Charles Spurgeon Janipalli

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Hyderabad, India

David Evans

Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Kulathu Radha Mani

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Hyderabad, India

Madana Narasimha Sandeep

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Hyderabad, India

Amy Taylor

Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Sanjay Kinra

Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Ruth Sullivan

Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Liza Bowen

Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Nicholas Timpson

Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

George Davey Smith

Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Frank Dudbridge

Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Dorairaj Prabhakaran

Affiliation Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India

Yoav Ben-Shlomo

Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Kolli Srinath Reddy

Affiliations South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India

Shah Ebrahim

Affiliations South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India

Giriraj Ratan Chandak

chandakgrc@ccmb.res.in (GRC); udaiig@gmail.com (VG)

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Hyderabad, India

the Indian Migration Study Group

Membership of the Indian Migration Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critical revision: VG FD US SE GRC YBS DP DGV MVKK CSJ KRM MNS SR DME AET SK RMS LB NJT GDS KSR. Conceived and designed the experiments: SE GDS FD DP YBS KSR GRC SK IMSG. Performed the experiments: DGV VG MVKK CSJ KRM MNS SR AET SK RMS LB NJT GDS FD DP YBS SE GRC. Analyzed the data: VG US DGV FD SE GRC GDS KSR SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VG US DGV FD SE GRC GDS KSR SK. Wrote the paper: VG FD US SE GRC GDS.