About the Authors

Claudia Langenberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Langenberg, Stephen J. Sharp, Paul W. Franks

Claudia.langenberg@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk (CL); nick.wareham@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk (NJW)

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stephen J. Sharp

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Langenberg, Stephen J. Sharp, Paul W. Franks

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Paul W. Franks

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Langenberg, Stephen J. Sharp, Paul W. Franks

Affiliations Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Robert A. Scott

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Panos Deloukas

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nita G. Forouhi

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Philippe Froguel

Affiliation Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Leif C. Groop

Affiliations University Hospital Scania, Malmö, Sweden, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Torben Hansen

Affiliations The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Luigi Palla

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Oluf Pedersen

Affiliations The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, Institute of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Matthias B. Schulze

Affiliation German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Maria-Jose Tormo

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, Murcia, Spain, Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Department of Health and Social Sciences, Universidad de Murcia, Spain

Eleanor Wheeler

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Claudia Agnoli

Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Milan, Italy

Larraitz Arriola

Affiliations Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, San Sebastian, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria BioDonostia, Basque Government, San Sebastian, Spain

Aurelio Barricarte

Affiliations Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Navarre Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain

Heiner Boeing

Affiliation German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Geraldine M. Clarke

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Françoise Clavel-Chapelon

Affiliations Inserm, CESP U1018, Villejuif, France, Université Paris-Sud, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France

Eric J. Duell

Affiliation Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain

Guy Fagherazzi

Affiliations Inserm, CESP U1018, Villejuif, France, Université Paris-Sud, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France

Rudolf Kaaks

Affiliation German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Nicola D. Kerrison

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Timothy J. Key

Affiliation University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Kay Tee Khaw

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Janine Kröger

Affiliation German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Martin Lajous

Affiliations Inserm, CESP U1018, Villejuif, France, Center for Research on Population Health, National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Mexico, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew P. Morris

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Carmen Navarro

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, Murcia, Spain, Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Unit of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Peter M. Nilsson

Affiliation Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Kim Overvad

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Domenico Palli

Affiliation Cancer Research and Prevention Institute, Florence, Italy

Salvatore Panico

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy

J. Ramón Quirós

Affiliation Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Spain

Olov Rolandsson

Affiliation Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Carlotta Sacerdote

Affiliations Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Piedmont Reference Center for Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention, Torino, Italy, Human Genetics Foundation, Torino, Italy

María-José Sánchez

Affiliations Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain

Nadia Slimani

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Annemieke M. W. Spijkerman

Affiliation National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Rosario Tumino

Affiliations Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale di Ragusa, Ragusa, Italy, Aire Onlus, Ragusa, Italy

Daphne L. van der A

Affiliation National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Yvonne T. van der Schouw

Affiliation University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Inês Barroso

Affiliations The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mark I. McCarthy

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom

Elio Riboli

Affiliation School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Nicholas J. Wareham

Claudia.langenberg@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk (CL); nick.wareham@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk (NJW)

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

IB and her spouse own stock in the companies GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Incyte (INCY). LCG and MIM are members of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL SJS PWF RAS PD NGF PF LCG TH LP OBP MBS MJT EW CA LA AB HB GMC FCC EJD GF RK NDK TJK KTK JK ML APM CN PMN KO DP SP JRQ OR CS MJS NS AMWS RT DLvdA YTvdS IB MIMC ER NJW. Performed the experiments: CL SJS PWF RAS NJW. Analyzed the data: SJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL SJS PWF RAS PD NGF PF LCG TH LP OBP MBS MJT EW CA LA AB HB GMC FCC EJD GF RK NDK TJK KTK JK ML APM CN PMN KO DP SP JRQ OR CS MJS NS AMWS RT DLvdA YTvdS IB MIMC ER NJW. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: CL NJW. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CL SJS PWF RAS PD NGF PF LCG TH LP OBP MBS MJT EW CA LA AB HB GMC FCC EJD GF RK NDK TJK KTK JK ML APM CN PMN KO DP SP JRQ OR CS MJS NS AMWS RT DLvdA YTvdS IB MIMC ER NJW. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: CL SJS PWF RAS PD NGF PF LCG TH LP OBP MBS MJT EW CA LA AB HB GMC FCC EJD GF RK NDK TJK KTK JK ML APM CN PMN KO DP SP JRQ OR CS MJS NS AMWS RT DLvdA YTvdS IB MIMC ER NJW. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: CL SJS PWF RAS PD NGF PF LCG TH LP OBP MBS MJT EW CA LA AB HB GMC FCC EJD GF RK NDK TJK KTK JK ML APM CN PMN KO DP SP JRQ OR CS MJS NS AMWS RT DLvdA YTvdS IB MIMC ER NJW.