About the Authors

Diana L. Cousminer

diana.cousminer@helsinki.fi

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Jaakko T. Leinonen

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Antti-Pekka Sarin

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Public Health Genomics Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Himanshu Chheda

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Ida Surakka

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Karoliina Wehkalampi

Affiliations Diabetes Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Children’s Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Pekka Ellonen

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Samuli Ripatti

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Public Health, Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Leo Dunkel

Affiliation Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom

Aarno Palotie

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, The Medical and Population Genomics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Elisabeth Widén

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DLC EW LD PE AP SR. Performed the experiments: DLC JTL PE. Analyzed the data: DLC JTL APS HC IS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PE AP EW. Wrote the paper: DLC EW PE HC. Sample and phenotype collection: KW LD.