About the Authors

Dionysios Grigoriadis

Contributed equally to this work with: Dionysios Grigoriadis, Ege Sackey

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Ege Sackey

Contributed equally to this work with: Dionysios Grigoriadis, Ege Sackey

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Katie Riches

Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ KR and MZ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, Derby, United Kingdom

Malou van Zanten

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ KR and MZ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Glen Brice

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South West Thames Regional Genetics Unit, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Ruth England

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, Derby, United Kingdom

Mike Mills

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Sara E. Dobbins

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Li Ling Lee

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Lipoedema Consortium

See acknowledgement for more information about the consortium.

Genomics England Research Consortium

See acknowledgement for more information about the consortium.

Steve Jeffery

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Liang Dong

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

David B. Savage

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Peter S. Mortimer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom, Dermatology & Lymphovascular Medicine, St George’s Universities NHS Foundation trust, London, United Kingdom

Vaughan Keeley

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, Derby, United Kingdom, University of Nottingham Medical School, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Alan Pittman

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Kristiana Gordon

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

kristiana.gordon@stgeorges.nhs.uk (KG); posterga@sgul.ac.uk (PO)

Affiliations Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom, Dermatology & Lymphovascular Medicine, St George’s Universities NHS Foundation trust, London, United Kingdom

Pia Ostergaard

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kristiana.gordon@stgeorges.nhs.uk (KG); posterga@sgul.ac.uk (PO)

Affiliation Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.