About the Authors

Senthil K. Vasan

Fredrik.Karpe@ocdem.ox.ac.uk (FK); vaskan@ki.se (SKV)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine & Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Matt J. Neville

Affiliation Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Belavendra Antonisamy

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Prasanna Samuel

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Caroline H. Fall

Affiliation Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Resource Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom

Finney S. Geethanjali

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Nihal Thomas

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Palany Raghupathy

Affiliation Department of Child Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tami Nadu, India

Kerstin Brismar

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine & Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Fredrik Karpe

Fredrik.Karpe@ocdem.ox.ac.uk (FK); vaskan@ki.se (SKV)

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals (ORH) Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKV BA CHF PR FK. Performed the experiments: MJN FK. Analyzed the data: SKV BA PS FK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKV MJN FK BA FSG NT KB. Wrote the paper: SKV FK.