About the Authors

Anne Müller

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne Müller, Gunnar Kleinau

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pediatric Endocrinology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Gunnar Kleinau

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne Müller, Gunnar Kleinau

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pediatric Endocrinology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Carolin L. Piechowski

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pediatric Endocrinology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Timo D. Müller

Affiliation Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Munich, Germany

Brian Finan

Affiliation Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Munich, Germany

Juliane Pratzka

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pediatric Endocrinology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Annette Grüters

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pediatric Endocrinology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Heiko Krude

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pediatric Endocrinology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Matthias Tschöp

Affiliations Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Munich, Germany, Department of Metabolic Diseases, Technical University, Munich, Germany

Heike Biebermann

heike.biebermann@charite.de

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pediatric Endocrinology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM GK CLP JP HK HB. Performed the experiments: AM GK CLP JP HB. Analyzed the data: AM GK CLP TDM BF JP AG HK MHT HB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK HB. Wrote the paper: AM GK CLP TDM BF JP AG HK MHT HB.