About the Authors

Amy E. Taylor

amy.taylor@bristol.ac.uk

Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Hannah Kuper

Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Ravi D. Varma

Affiliation Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India

Jonathan C. Wells

Affiliation Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Jimmy D. Bell

Affiliation Metabolic and Molecular Imaging Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

K. V.Radhakrishna

Affiliation National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India

Bharati Kulkarni

Affiliation National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India

Sanjay Kinra

Affiliation Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Nicholas J. Timpson

Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Shah Ebrahim

Affiliations Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India

George Davey Smith

Affiliations School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Yoav Ben-Shlomo

Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AET HK RDV JCW JDB KVR BK SK NJT GDS SE YBS. Performed the experiments: RDV. Analyzed the data: AET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RDV. Wrote the paper: AET HK RDV JCW JDB KVR BK SK NJT GDS SE YBS.