About the Authors

Manuela Zanda

Affiliations University College London (UCL) Genetics Institute (UGI), London, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Suna Onengut-Gumuscu

Affiliation University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Neil Walker

Affiliation JDRF/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation laboratory, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Corina Shtir

Affiliation JDRF/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation laboratory, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Daniel Gallo

Affiliation University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Chris Wallace

Affiliation JDRF/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation laboratory, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Deborah Smyth

Affiliation JDRF/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation laboratory, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

John A. Todd

Affiliation JDRF/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation laboratory, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Matthew E. Hurles

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Vincent Plagnol

v.plagnol@ucl.ac.uk (VP); ssr4n@virginia.edu (SSR)

Affiliation University College London (UCL) Genetics Institute (UGI), London, United Kingdom

Stephen S. Rich

v.plagnol@ucl.ac.uk (VP); ssr4n@virginia.edu (SSR)

Affiliation University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VP SSR MEH JAT. Performed the experiments: SOG DG DS. Analyzed the data: MZ NW CS CW. Wrote the paper: VP MZ MEH SSR.