About the Authors

Matthew G. Rees

Affiliations National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology & Metabolism, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Mindy I. Davis

Affiliation National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Min Shen

Affiliation National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Steve Titus

Affiliation GE Healthcare, Life Sciences, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Anne Raimondo

Affiliation Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology & Metabolism, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Amy Barrett

Affiliation Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology & Metabolism, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Anna L. Gloyn

Affiliations Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology & Metabolism, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, ORH Trust, OCDEM, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Francis S. Collins

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Anton Simeonov

asimeono@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Steve Titus is employed by GE Healthcare. His contribution to the present work primarily consists of advice on imaging data analysis and does not present a conflict of interest with respect to his employer. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MGR MID ST AR AB ALG FSC AS. Performed the experiments: MGR MID AR AB ALG. Analyzed the data: MGR MID MS ST AR AB ALG FSC AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGR MID MS AR AB ALG. Wrote the paper: MGR MID MS ST AR AB ALG FSC AS.