About the Authors

Johan Holmkvist

Affiliation Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark

Karina Banasik

Affiliation Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark

Gitte Andersen

Affiliation Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark

Hiroyuki Unoki

Affiliation Laboratory for Endocrinology and Metabolism, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Thomas Skot Jensen

Affiliation Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Charlotta Pisinger

Affiliation Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark

Knut Borch-Johnsen

Affiliations Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark, Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Annelli Sandbæk

Affiliation Department of General Practice, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Torsten Lauritzen

Affiliation Department of General Practice, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Sören Brunak

Affiliation Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Shiro Maeda

Affiliation Laboratory for Endocrinology and Metabolism, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Torben Hansen

Affiliations Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark, Faculty of Health Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Oluf Pedersen

oluf@hagedorn.dk

Affiliations Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark, Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

K. Borch-Johnsen, T. Hansen and O. Pedersen hold employee share in Novo Nordisk. The remaining authors declare that there is no duality of interest associated with this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH GA TH OBP. Performed the experiments: JH KB TSJ. Analyzed the data: JH KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HU TSJ CP KBJ AS TL SB SM TH OBP. Wrote the paper: JH GA TH OBP.