About the Authors
- Si Fang
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: Si.Fang@bristol.ac.uk (SF); Tom.G.Richardson@bristol.ac.uk (TGR)
Affiliations Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- James Yarmolinsky
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Dipender Gill
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Chief Scientific Advisor Office, Research and Early Development, Novo Nordisk, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Caroline J. Bull
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Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Bristol Renal, Bristol Heart Institute, Translational Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, IGF & Metabolic Endocrinology Group, Translational Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Learning & Research Building, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Claire M. Perks
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Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation IGF & Metabolic Endocrinology Group, Translational Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Learning & Research Building, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom
- the PRACTICAL Consortium
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Tom R. Gaunt
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Tom G. Richardson
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: Si.Fang@bristol.ac.uk (SF); Tom.G.Richardson@bristol.ac.uk (TGR)
Affiliations Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DG is employed part-time by Novo Nordisk outside of this work. TGR is an employee of GlaxoSmithKline outside of this research. TRG and GDS receives funding from Biogen for unrelated research. GDS is an Academic Editor on PLOS Medicine’s editorial board. All other co-authors declare no conflict of interest.