About the Authors

Krzysztof Wanic

Affiliations Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Metabolic Diseases, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Bozena Krolewski

Affiliations Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wenjun Ju

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Grzegorz Placha

Affiliations Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Hypertension, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland

Monika A. Niewczas

Affiliations Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

William Walker

Affiliation Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James H. Warram

Affiliation Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthias Kretzler

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Andrzej S. Krolewski

Andrzej.Krolewski@joslin.harvard.edu

Affiliations Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KW BK ASK MK. Performed the experiments: KW BK GP MN WW. Analyzed the data: KW JW MK WJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BK ASK. Wrote the paper: KW ASK JW.