These authors contributed equally: Daniel E. Coral, Femke Smit, Ali Farzaneh.

Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Department of Clinical Science, Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden

Daniel E. Coral, Juan Fernandez Tajes, Giuseppe N. Giordano & Paul W. Franks

Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Femke Smit, Michiel Adriaens & Ilja Arts

Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ali Farzaneh & Kan Wang

Preventive Cardiology and Preventive Medicine, Center for Cardiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Alexander Gieswinkel & Philipp S. Wild

Department of Pharmacometrics, Novo Nordisk A/S, Søborg, Denmark

Thomas Sparsø & Carl Delfin

Université de Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1190-EGID, Lille, France

Pierre Bauvin

Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Rockville, MD, USA

Marinella Temprosa

Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Research Group, Department of Public Health, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Diederik De Cock

Nutrition, Eumetabolism and Health Group, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona (IDIBGI-CERCA), Girona, Spain

Jordi Blanch, José Manuel Fernández-Real & Rafael Ramos

Department of Medical Sciences, University of Girona, Girona, Spain

Jordi Blanch, José Manuel Fernández-Real & Rafael Ramos

CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Jordi Blanch, José Manuel Fernández-Real & Rafael Ramos

Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Dr. Josep Trueta University Hospital, Girona, Spain

Jordi Blanch, José Manuel Fernández-Real & Rafael Ramos

Departments of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

M. Kamran Ikram & Maryam Kavousi

Diabetic Complications Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Department of Clinical Science, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Maria F. Gomez

Translational Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany

Marina Panova-Noeva

Center for Thrombosis and Haemostasis, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Marina Panova-Noeva & Philipp S. Wild

DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Rhine-Main, Mainz, Germany

Philipp S. Wild

Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz, Germany

Philipp S. Wild

School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Carla van der Kallen & Marleen van Greevenbroek

Diabetes Complications Research Centre, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Carel Le Roux

Data Science and Biostatistics Department, Julius Global Health, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Fariba Ahmadizar

Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Fariba Ahmadizar

Genetics of Complex Traits, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Timothy M. Frayling

Population Health and Genomics, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

Ewan R. Pearson