About the Authors

Franziska Alff

Affiliation Department of Women and Child Health, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Jana Markert

Affiliations Department of Women and Child Health, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Integrated Research and Treatment Center (IFB) AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Silke Zschaler

Affiliation Department of Women and Child Health, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Ruth Gausche

Affiliation CrescNet gGmbH, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Wieland Kiess

Affiliations Department of Women and Child Health, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Integrated Research and Treatment Center (IFB) AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Susann Blüher

susann.blueher@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliations Department of Women and Child Health, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Integrated Research and Treatment Center (IFB) AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FA SZ RG WK SB. Performed the experiments: FA SZ SB. Analyzed the data: FA JM RG SB. Wrote the paper: FA JM SB.