About the Authors

Christopher G. Bell

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher G. Bell, Sarah Finer, Cecilia M. Lindgren

christopher.bell@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Medical Genomics, UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Sarah Finer

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher G. Bell, Sarah Finer, Cecilia M. Lindgren

Affiliation Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Cecilia M. Lindgren

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher G. Bell, Sarah Finer, Cecilia M. Lindgren

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Gareth A. Wilson

Affiliation Medical Genomics, UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Vardhman K. Rakyan

Affiliation Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Andrew E. Teschendorff

Affiliation Medical Genomics, UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Pelin Akan

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Elia Stupka

Affiliations Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, Comparative Genomics, UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Thomas A. Down

Affiliations Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Inga Prokopenko

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Ian M. Morison

Affiliation Pathology Department, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Jonathan Mill

Affiliation Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Ruth Pidsley

Affiliation Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

International Type 2 Diabetes 1q Consortium
Panos Deloukas

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Timothy M. Frayling

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Andrew T. Hattersley

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Mark I. McCarthy

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Stephan Beck

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Medical Genomics, UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Graham A. Hitman

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CGB CML VKR PD MIM SB GAH. Performed the experiments: CGB SF VKR PA. Analyzed the data: CGB GAW AET PA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CGB CML GAW AET ES TAD IP IMM JM RP NN TMF ATH. Wrote the paper: CGB SF SB GAH.