About the Authors

Orit Pinhas-Hamiel

orithami@sheba.health.gov.il

Affiliations Maccabi Juvenile Diabetes Center, Raanana, Israel, Pediatric Endocrine and Diabetes Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Uri Hamiel

Affiliation Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Valentina Boyko

Affiliation The Women and Children's Health Research Unit, Gertner Institute, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Chana Graph-Barel

Affiliation Maccabi Juvenile Diabetes Center, Raanana, Israel

Brian Reichman

Affiliations Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, The Women and Children's Health Research Unit, Gertner Institute, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Liat Lerner-Geva

Affiliations Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, The Women and Children's Health Research Unit, Gertner Institute, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OPH UH BR LLG. Performed the experiments: OPH UH CGB. Analyzed the data: OPH VB BR LLG CGB UH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VB CGB BR LLG. Wrote the paper: OPH UH VB CGB BR LLG.