About the Authors

Clara Breitling

Contributed equally to this work with: Clara Breitling, Arnd Gross

Affiliation Center for Pediatric Research (CPL), University Hospital for Children and Adolescents Leipzig, Dept. of Women´s & Child Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Arnd Gross

Contributed equally to this work with: Clara Breitling, Arnd Gross

Affiliations Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, LIFE-Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Petra Büttner

Affiliation Center for Pediatric Research (CPL), University Hospital for Children and Adolescents Leipzig, Dept. of Women´s & Child Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Sebastian Weise

Affiliation Center for Pediatric Research (CPL), University Hospital for Children and Adolescents Leipzig, Dept. of Women´s & Child Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Dorit Schleinitz

Affiliation Integrated Research and Treatment Center Adiposity Diseases (IFB), Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Wieland Kiess

Affiliation Center for Pediatric Research (CPL), University Hospital for Children and Adolescents Leipzig, Dept. of Women´s & Child Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Markus Scholz

Affiliations Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, LIFE-Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Peter Kovacs

Affiliation Integrated Research and Treatment Center Adiposity Diseases (IFB), Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Antje Körner

Antje.Koerner@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliations Center for Pediatric Research (CPL), University Hospital for Children and Adolescents Leipzig, Dept. of Women´s & Child Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Adiposity Diseases (IFB), Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

A.K. declares on behalf of all authors there are no competing interests that could be perceived to bias their work, acknowledging all financial support and any other relevant financial or non-financial competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB PB AK. Performed the experiments: CB PB. Analyzed the data: CB AG PB MS DS PK AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG MS. Wrote the paper: CB AG PB MS SW WK PK AK. Co-supervised the project: PK.