About the Authors

Bridget Ann Knight

Contributed equally to this work with: Bridget Ann Knight, Beverley M. Shields, Adam Brook

B.A.Knight@ex.ac.uk

Affiliations Exeter NIHR Clinical Research Facility, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, England, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, England

Beverley M. Shields

Contributed equally to this work with: Bridget Ann Knight, Beverley M. Shields, Adam Brook

Affiliation Exeter NIHR Clinical Research Facility, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, England

Adam Brook

Contributed equally to this work with: Bridget Ann Knight, Beverley M. Shields, Adam Brook

Affiliations Exeter NIHR Clinical Research Facility, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, England, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, England

Anita Hill

Affiliation Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, England

Dattatray S. Bhat

Affiliation Diabetes Unit, KEM Hospital and Research Centre, Pune, India

Andrew T. Hattersley

Affiliation Exeter NIHR Clinical Research Facility, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, England

Chittaranjan S. Yajnik

Affiliation Diabetes Unit, KEM Hospital and Research Centre, Pune, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ATH CSY. Performed the experiments: BK AH DSB. Analyzed the data: BK BS AB ATH CSY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DSB. Wrote the paper: BK BS AB AH DSB ATH CSY. Recruited participants and collected data: BK. Data entry: AH.