About the Authors

Aaron Leong

Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron Leong, Josep M. Mercader

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

asleong@mgh.harvard.edu (AL); mercader@broadinstitute.org (JMM)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joanne B. Cole

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Endocrinology and Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laura N. Brenner

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division on Pulmonary and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Massachusetts, United States of America

James B. Meigs

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jose C. Florez

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Josep M. Mercader

Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron Leong, Josep M. Mercader

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

asleong@mgh.harvard.edu (AL); mercader@broadinstitute.org (JMM)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.