About the Authors

Michaela Breier

Michaela.Breier@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Subclassification of Type 2 Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen and Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany

Simone Wahl

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany

Cornelia Prehn

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany

Marina Fugmann

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Subclassification of Type 2 Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen and Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Diabetes Research Group Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

Uta Ferrari

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Subclassification of Type 2 Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen and Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Diabetes Research Group Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

Michaela Weise

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Subclassification of Type 2 Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen and Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Diabetes Research Group Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

Friederike Banning

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Subclassification of Type 2 Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen and Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Diabetes Research Group Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

Jochen Seissler

Affiliations Clinical Cooperation Group Subclassification of Type 2 Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen and Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Diabetes Research Group Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

Harald Grallert

Affiliations Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Subclassification of Type 2 Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen and Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany

Jerzy Adamski

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Genome Analysis Center, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Chair for Experimental Genetics, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Andreas Lechner

Affiliations German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Group Subclassification of Type 2 Diabetes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen and Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Diabetes Research Group Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB CP UF JS HG JA AL. Performed the experiments: MB CP UF MW FB. Analyzed the data: MB SW CP MF UF FB AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CP JS HG JA AL. Wrote the paper: MB SW CP MF UF MW FB JS HG JA AL.