underway. 

## Acknowledgements 

We thank Matthew Simmonds, Stephen Gough, Jayne Franklyn, Oliver Brand, for sharing their AITD genetic association dataset and all AITD patients and control subjects for participating in this study. The AITD UK national collection was funded by the Wellcome Trust. 

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We would like to thank the UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust for fund- ing the collection of DNA for the British 1958 Birth Cohort (MRC grant G0000934, WT grant 068545/Z/02). We acknowledge use of data from The UK Blood Services collection of Common Controls (UKBS collection), funded by the Wellcome Trust grant 076113/C/04/Z, by the Wellcome Trust/JDRF grant 061858, and by the National Institute of Health Research of England. The DNA collection was established as part of the Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium. 

For additional detailed acknowledgements of the source assay design, genotyping, data and samples, please see Cooper et al (2012). 

CW is funded by the Wellcome Trust (089989). The Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory is funded by the JDRF, the Wellcome Trust and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre. The Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) is in receipt of a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award (100140). 

## Conflict of Interest 

The authors have no conflict of interest to declare. 

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