About the Authors

Lisa-Marie Sattler

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Hanna A. Schniewind

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Waldemar B. Minich

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Christoph W. Haudum

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Validation

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Endocrinology Lab Platform, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria, Center for Biomarker Research in Medicine (CBmed), Graz, Austria

Petra Niklowitz

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Vestische Kinder- und Jugendklinik, University of Witten-Herdecke, Datteln, Germany

Julia Münzker

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Integrated Research and Treatment Centre for Adiposity Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Gábor L. Kovács

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation 1st Department of Internal Medicine, Flor Ferenc Hospital, Kistarcsa, Hungary

Thomas Reinehr

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Vestische Kinder- und Jugendklinik, University of Witten-Herdecke, Datteln, Germany

Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Endocrinology Lab Platform, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

Lutz Schomburg

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

lutz.schomburg@charite.de

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.