About the Authors

Maxine J. E. Lamb

Maxine.Lamb@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Christopher D. Byrne

Affiliations Nutrition and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Southampton National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

James F. Wilson

Affiliations Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Sarah H. Wild

Affiliation Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW SW. Analyzed the data: ML. Wrote the paper: ML. Interpretation of results and major revisions of the manuscript: CDB SW.