About the Authors

Tina Sartorius

Contributed equally to this work with: Tina Sartorius, Harald Staiger

Affiliations Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Centre Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Harald Staiger

Contributed equally to this work with: Tina Sartorius, Harald Staiger

Affiliations Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Centre Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Caroline Ketterer

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Martin Heni

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Fausto Machicao

Affiliations Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Centre Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany

Adilson Guilherme

Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Harald Grallert

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany, Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Matthias B. Schulze

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Heiner Boeing

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

Norbert Stefan

Affiliations Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Centre Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Andreas Fritsche

Affiliations Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Centre Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Division of Nutritional and Preventive Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Michael P. Czech

Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hans-Ulrich Häring

hans-ulrich.haering@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliations Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Centre Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry, Department of Internal Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FM MBS HB NS AF MPC HUH. Performed the experiments: CK MH FM NS AF. Analyzed the data: TS HS AG HG MBS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM NS AF HUH. Wrote the paper: TS HS.