About the Authors
- Shiro Maeda
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* E-mail: smaeda@src.riken.jp
Affiliation Laboratory for Endocrinology and Metabolism, RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Masa-aki Kobayashi
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Affiliations Laboratory for Endocrinology and Metabolism, RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Discovery Research Laboratories, Shionogi & Co., Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
- Shin-ichi Araki
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
- Tetsuya Babazono
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Affiliation The Diabetes Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- Barry I. Freedman
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Affiliation Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Meredith A. Bostrom
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Affiliation Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jessica N. Cooke
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Affiliation Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Masao Toyoda
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan
- Tomoya Umezono
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan
- Lise Tarnow
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Affiliation Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark
- Torben Hansen
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Affiliations Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Peter Gaede
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Affiliation Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark
- Anders Jorsal
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Affiliation Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark
- Daniel P. K. Ng
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Minoru Ikeda
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Affiliation Developmental Research Laboratories, Shionogi & Co., Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
- Toru Yanagimoto
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Affiliation Developmental Research Laboratories, Shionogi & Co., Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
- Tatsuhiko Tsunoda
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Affiliation Laboratory for Medical Informatics, RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Hiroyuki Unoki
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Affiliation Laboratory for Endocrinology and Metabolism, RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Koichi Kawai
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Affiliation Kawai Clinic, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Masahito Imanishi
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan
- Daisuke Suzuki
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan
- Hyoung Doo Shin
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Affiliation Department of Life Science, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
- Kyong Soo Park
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Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Atsunori Kashiwagi
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
- Yasuhiko Iwamoto
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Affiliation The Diabetes Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- Kohei Kaku
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Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
- Ryuzo Kawamori
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Metabolism, and Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
- Hans-Henrik Parving
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Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Medical Endocrinology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Donald W. Bowden
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Affiliation Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Oluf Pedersen
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Affiliations Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Yusuke Nakamura
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SM YN. Performed the experiments: SM MaK MI TY HU HDS KSP. Analyzed the data: SM BIF DPKN TT HDS KSP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SiA TB BIF MAB JNC MT TU LT TH PG AJ DPKN KK MI DS HDS KSP AK YI KK RK HHP DWB OP. Wrote the paper: SM BIF TH OP. Performed real-time PCR: MK TY. Performed transfection experiments: MK HU. Performed European American study: BIF MAB JNC DWB. Performed Danish Type 1 diabetes study: LT AJ HHP. Performed Danish Steno-2 study: TH PG OP. Performed Singapore study: DPKN. Performed in situ hybridization: MI. Performed Korean study: HDS KSP.