About the Authors

Yaron Suissa

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaron Suissa, Judith Magenheim

Affiliations Endocrinology and Metabolism Service, Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Judith Magenheim

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaron Suissa, Judith Magenheim

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Miri Stolovich-Rain

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Ayat Hija

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Patrick Collombat

Affiliations Department of Diabetes Genetics, Inserm, Nice, France, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, UFR Sciences, Nice, France

Ahmed Mansouri

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany

Lori Sussel

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Beatriz Sosa-Pineda

Affiliation Department of Genetics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Kyle McCracken

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

James M. Wells

Affiliation Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

R. Scott Heller

Affiliation Histology and Delivery Department, Novo Nordisk, Måløv, Denmark

Yuval Dor

beng@cc.huji.ac.il (BG); yuvald@ekmd.huji.ac.il (YD)

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Benjamin Glaser

beng@cc.huji.ac.il (BG); yuvald@ekmd.huji.ac.il (YD)

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Service, Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

RSH is employed by Novo-Nordisk, however, this does not create any conflict of interest related to this work, nor does it alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing of data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS JM MSR AH PC LS BSP KM RSH YD BG. Performed the experiments: YS JM MSR AH PC AM LS BSP KM JMW RSH. Analyzed the data: YS JM MSR AH PC AM LS BSP KM JMW RSH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS JM MSR AH PC AM LS BSP KM JMW RSH. Wrote the paper: YS JM YD BG.