About the Authors

Xue Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Xiangrui Meng

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Yazhou He

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Athina Spiliopoulou

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Maria Timofeeva

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Wei-Qi Wei

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Aliya Gifford

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Tian Yang

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tim Varley

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health and Intelligence, NHS National Services Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Ioanna Tzoulaki

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece

Peter Joshi

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Joshua C. Denny

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Paul Mckeigue

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Harry Campbell

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Evropi Theodoratou

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

e.theodoratou@ed.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.