About the Authors

Dan Ziegler

dan.ziegler@ddz.uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center at Heinrich Heine University, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Partner Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Alexander Strom

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center at Heinrich Heine University, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Partner Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Klaus Strassburger

Affiliation Institute of Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center at Heinrich Heine University, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany

Bettina Nowotny

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center at Heinrich Heine University, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany

Lejla Zahiragic

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center at Heinrich Heine University, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany

Peter J. Nowotny

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center at Heinrich Heine University, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany

Maren Carstensen-Kirberg

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center at Heinrich Heine University, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Partner Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Christian Herder

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center at Heinrich Heine University, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Partner Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Julia Szendroedi

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center at Heinrich Heine University, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Partner Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Michael Roden

Affiliations Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center at Heinrich Heine University, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Partner Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR DZ. Performed the experiments: DZ BN LZ MCK CH JS. Analyzed the data: DZ AS BN KS LZ MCK CH JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PJN KS. Wrote the paper: DZ PJN CH MR AS.