About the Authors

Xuanshi Liu

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Kerstin Weidle

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Kristin Schröck

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Anke Tönjes

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Dorit Schleinitz

Affiliation IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Jana Breitfeld

Affiliation IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Michael Stumvoll

Affiliations IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Yvonne Böttcher

Affiliation IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Torsten Schöneberg

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Peter Kovacs

peter.kovacs@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT PK TS MS YB. Performed the experiments: XL KW KS. Analyzed the data: XL KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS JB YB. Wrote the paper: XL KW TS YB PK.