About the Authors

Décio L. Eizirik

deizirik@ulb.ac.be (DLE); mcnop@ulb.ac.be (MC)

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Michael Sammeth

Affiliation Functional Bioinformatics (FBI), Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica (CNAG), Barcelona, Spain

Thomas Bouckenooghe

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Guy Bottu

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Giorgia Sisino

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Mariana Igoillo-Esteve

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Fernanda Ortis

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Izortze Santin

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Maikel L. Colli

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Jenny Barthson

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Luc Bouwens

Affiliation Cell Differentiation Unit, Diabetes Research Centre, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Linda Hughes

Affiliation Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism (OCDEM), Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Lorna Gregory

Affiliation Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism (OCDEM), Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Gerton Lunter

Affiliation Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism (OCDEM), Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Lorella Marselli

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Piero Marchetti

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Mark I. McCarthy

Affiliations Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism (OCDEM), Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Miriam Cnop

deizirik@ulb.ac.be (DLE); mcnop@ulb.ac.be (MC)

Affiliations Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, Division of Endocrinology, Erasmus Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DLE MIM MC. Performed the experiments: TB GS MI-E FO IS MLC JB LB LH LG GL LM PM MC. Analyzed the data: DLE MS GB MIM MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DLE MS LH LG GL LM PM MIM MC. Wrote the paper: DLE MS GB MC.