About the Authors

Cornelia Then

Contributed equally to this work with: Cornelia Then, Simone Wahl

Affiliations Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Diabetes Zentrum - Campus Innenstadt, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Simone Wahl

Contributed equally to this work with: Cornelia Then, Simone Wahl

Affiliation Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Anna Kirchhofer

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Diabetes Zentrum - Campus Innenstadt, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

Harald Grallert

Affiliations Clinical Cooperation Group Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Susanne Krug

Affiliations Else-Kroener-Fresenius-Centre for Nutritional Medicine, ZIEL - Research Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Technical University München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Nutrigenomics and Type 2 Diabetes, Technical University München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Gabi Kastenmüller

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Werner Römisch-Margl

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Melina Claussnitzer

Affiliations Else-Kroener-Fresenius-Centre for Nutritional Medicine, ZIEL - Research Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Technical University München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Nutrigenomics and Type 2 Diabetes, Technical University München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Thomas Illig

Affiliation Hannover Unified Biobank, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Margit Heier

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Christa Meisinger

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Jerzy Adamski

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany.

Barbara Thorand

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

Cornelia Huth

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

Annette Peters

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Cornelia Prehn

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany.

Ina Heukamp

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Diabetes Zentrum - Campus Innenstadt, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

Helmut Laumen

Affiliations Else-Kroener-Fresenius-Centre for Nutritional Medicine, ZIEL - Research Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Technical University München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Nutrigenomics and Type 2 Diabetes, Technical University München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Andreas Lechner

Affiliations Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Diabetes Zentrum - Campus Innenstadt, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Hans Hauner

Affiliations Else-Kroener-Fresenius-Centre for Nutritional Medicine, ZIEL - Research Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Technical University München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Nutrigenomics and Type 2 Diabetes, Technical University München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Jochen Seissler

jochen.seissler@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliations Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Diabetes Zentrum - Campus Innenstadt, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT HG MC TI MH BT CH HL AL HH JS. Performed the experiments: CT SW AK HG SK GK WRM MC TI MH CM JA CP IH HL AL HH JS. Analyzed the data: CT SW AK HG SK GK WRM MC TI MH JA AP CP IH HL AL HH JS. Wrote the manuscript: CT SW AK HG SK GK MC TI MH BT CH AP CM IH HL AL HH JS.