About the Authors

Jordi Merino

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordi Merino, Marta Guasch-Ferré, Jun Li

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

jmerino@mgh.harvard.edu

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

Marta Guasch-Ferré

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordi Merino, Marta Guasch-Ferré, Jun Li

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

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jun Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordi Merino, Marta Guasch-Ferré, Jun Li

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wonil Chung

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, College of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China

Yang Hu

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Baoshan Ma

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, College of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China

Yanping Li

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jae H. Kang

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter Kraft

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Liming Liang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Qi Sun

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul W. Franks

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

JoAnn E. Manson

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Walter C. Willet

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jose C. Florez

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ JCF and FBH also contributed equally to this work.

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

Frank B. Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ JCF and FBH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Y.L. have received research supports from the California Walnut Commission and Swiss Reinsurance Company, which were both unrelated with current research project. P.W.F. has received honoraria from Lilly Inc, Novo Nordisk A/S, and Zoe Global Ltd, with stock options. All other authors declare no competing interests.