About the Authors

Tony Robertson

t.robertson@sphsu.mrc.ac.uk

Affiliation Medical Research Council’s Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, United Kingdom

G. David Batty

Affiliations Medical Research Council’s Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Geoff Der

Affiliation Medical Research Council’s Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Michael J. Green

Affiliation Medical Research Council’s Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Liane M. McGlynn

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Sciences, MVLS, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Alan McIntyre

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Sciences, MVLS, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Paul G. Shiels

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Sciences, MVLS, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Michaela Benzeval

Affiliation Medical Research Council’s Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TR GDB GD MJG PGS MB. Performed the experiments: LMM AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LMM AM PGS. Wrote the paper: TR GDB GD MJG LMM AM PGS MB.