About the Authors

Insa Feinkohl

I.Feinkohl@sms.ed.ac.uk (IF); Jackie.Price@ed.ac.uk (JFP)

Naveed Sattar
Paul Welsh
Rebecca M. Reynolds
Ian J. Deary

I.Feinkohl@sms.ed.ac.uk (IF); Jackie.Price@ed.ac.uk (JFP)

Mark W. J. Strachan
Jackie F. Price

I.Feinkohl@sms.ed.ac.uk (IF); Jackie.Price@ed.ac.uk (JFP)

on behalf of the Edinburgh Type 2 Diabetes Study (ET2DS) Investigators

Competing Interests

The ET2DS is co-funded by Pfizer plc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFP MWJS. Performed the experiments: IJD NS PW RMR. Analyzed the data: IF. Wrote the paper: IF NS PW RMR IJD MWJS JFP.