About the Authors

Josep M. Mercader

Affiliation Joint IRB–BSC Program on Computational Biology, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Montserrat Puiggros

Affiliations Joint IRB–BSC Program on Computational Biology, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Computational Bioinformatics, National Institute of Bioinformatics, Madrid, Spain

Ayellet V. Segrè

Affiliations Center for Human Genetic Research and Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Evarist Planet

Affiliation Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Unit, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain

Eleonora Sorianello

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Universitat de Barcelona, and CIBERDEM, Barcelona, Spain

David Sebastian

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Universitat de Barcelona, and CIBERDEM, Barcelona, Spain

Sergio Rodriguez-Cuenca

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Metabolic Research Laboratories Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Vicent Ribas

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Universitat de Barcelona, and CIBERDEM, Barcelona, Spain

Sílvia Bonàs-Guarch

Affiliation Joint IRB–BSC Program on Computational Biology, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Sorin Draghici

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Department of Clinical and Translational Science, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Intelligent Systems and Bioinformatics Laboratory, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Chenjing Yang

Affiliation Institute of Translational Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Sílvia Mora

Affiliation Institute of Translational Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Antoni Vidal-Puig

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Metabolic Research Laboratories Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Josée Dupuis

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

DIAGRAM Consortium

Memberships of the consortia are provided in Appendix S1.

Jose C. Florez

Affiliations Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Diabetes Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research and Diabetes Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

MITIN Consortium

Memberships of the consortia are provided in Appendix S1.

Antonio Zorzano

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Universitat de Barcelona, and CIBERDEM, Barcelona, Spain

David Torrents

david.torrents@bsc.es

Affiliations Joint IRB–BSC Program on Computational Biology, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMM DT JCF AZ AV-P SM. Performed the experiments: JMM MP AVS SR-C VR CY SM. Analyzed the data: JMM MP AVS EP JD SB-G SD ES DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AVS JD. Wrote the paper: JMM ES DS SM AV-P AZ DT.