About the Authors

Noel Yat Hey Ng

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Guozhi Jiang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Lai Ping Cheung

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

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Yuying Zhang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Claudia Ha Ting Tam

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Andrea On Yan Luk

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Jianchao Quan

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

Affiliation Division of Health Economics, Policy and Management, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Eric Siu Him Lau

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Asia Diabetes Foundation, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Tiffany Tse Ling Yau

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Michael Ho Ming Chan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Chung Shun Ho

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Cadmon King Poo Lim

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Risa Ozaki

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Jin Huang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Kin Hung Liu

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

Affiliation Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Wing Hung Tam

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Daljit Singh Sahota

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Winnie Chiu Wing Chu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

William Goggins

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Jean Woo

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Tin Chiu Li

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Chun Chung Chow

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Juliana Chung Ngor Chan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Research Centre in Diabetes Genomics and Precision Medicine, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Ronald Ching Wan Ma

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

rcwma@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Research Centre in Diabetes Genomics and Precision Medicine, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: RCWM acknowledges receiving research support (outside of this work) from AstraZeneca, Bayer, and Pfizer and honoraria or consultancy fees from AstraZeneca and Boehringer Ingelheim, all of which have been donated to the Chinese University of Hong Kong to support diabetes research. CKPL, JCNC and RCWM are co-founders of GemVCare, a diabetes genetic testing laboratory, which was established through support from the Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU) from the Hong Kong Government Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC). RCWM is a member of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) Pregnancy and Non-communicable Diseases Committee and a member of the Executive Board of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD) and Worldwide Diabetes (WWD). RCWM is a member of the editorial board of PLOS Medicine.