About the Authors

Robin N. Beaumont

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, Department of Child Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Sarah J. Kotecha

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Child Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Andrew R. Wood

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Bridget A. Knight

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Sylvain Sebert

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulun yliopisto, Finland, Unit of Primary Health Care, Oulu University Hospital, OYS, Oulu, Finland

Mark I. McCarthy

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Genentech, South San Francisco, California

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Andrew T. Hattersley

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Marjo-Riitta Järvelin

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulun yliopisto, Finland, Unit of Primary Health Care, Oulu University Hospital, OYS, Oulu, Finland, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Nicholas J. Timpson

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Rachel M. Freathy

Contributed equally to this work with: Rachel M. Freathy, Sailesh Kotecha

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

r.freathy@exeter.ac.uk

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Sailesh Kotecha

Contributed equally to this work with: Rachel M. Freathy, Sailesh Kotecha

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Child Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, or the Department of Health. MMcC has served on advisory panels for Pfizer, NovoNordisk and Zoe Global, has received honoraria from Merck, Pfizer, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, and research funding from Abbvie, Astra Zeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Merck, NovoNordisk, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi Aventis, Servier, and Takeda. As of June 2019, MMcC is an employee of Genentech, and a holder of Roche stock.