About the Authors

Geoff Der

G.Der@sphsu.mrc.ac.uk

Affiliations Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Medical Research Council, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

G. David Batty

Affiliations Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Michaela Benzeval

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

Ian J. Deary

Affiliation Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Michael J. Green

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

Liane McGlynn

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

Alan McIntyre

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

Tony Robertson

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

Paul G. Shiels

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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