About the Authors

Soo Lim

Contributed equally to this work with: Soo Lim, Katherine G. Stember

Affiliations General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

Katherine G. Stember

Contributed equally to this work with: Soo Lim, Katherine G. Stember

Affiliations General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Human Genetic Research, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wei He

Affiliation General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Porneala C. Bianca

Affiliation General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carine Yelibi

Affiliation General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alison Marquis

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Til Stürmer

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

John B. Buse

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

James B. Meigs

jmeigs@partners.org

Affiliation General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The funding for this project was provided by Sanofi (Paris, France) through a subcontract with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare.

Author Contributions

Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL KGS WH PCB CY AM TS JBB. Wrote the paper: SL KGS JBM.