About the Authors

Lotte Simonsen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Obesity & Liver Disease Research, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, Denmark

Jesper Lau

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Chemistry, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, Denmark

Thomas Kruse

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Chemistry, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, Denmark

Tingqing Guo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Discovery Biology, Novo Nordisk Research Centre, Beijing, China

Jim McGuire

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Translational Research, Catalyst Biosciences, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Affiliation Incretin Biology, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, Denmark

Jacob Fuglsbjerg Jeppesen

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Diabetes, Cardio- & Renal Research, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, Denmark

Kristoffer Niss

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Bioinformatics & Data Mining, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, Denmark

Per Sauerberg

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

Affiliation Project and Alliance Management, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, Denmark

Kirsten Raun

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Obesity & Liver Disease Research, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, Denmark

Charlotta Dornonville de la Cour

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cddc@novonordisk.com

Affiliation Global Diabetes, Cardio- & Renal Research, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, Denmark

Competing Interests

All authors are or were full time employees at Novo Nordisk A/S and hold a minor share portion as part of their employment. Novo Nordisk A/S manufactures and markets pharmaceuticals related to diabetes, obesity and other chronic diseases and has intellectual property rights for several inventions related to these diseases. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.