About the Authors

Cornelis R. van der Torren

Contributed equally to this work with: Cornelis R. van der Torren, Annemarie A. Verrijn Stuart

Affiliations Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center for Beta Cell Therapy in Diabetes

Annemarie A. Verrijn Stuart

Contributed equally to this work with: Cornelis R. van der Torren, Annemarie A. Verrijn Stuart

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Immunology, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Laboratory of Translational Immunology and Multiplex Core Facility, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands

DaHae Lee

Affiliations Dept. of Endocrinology, University Hospital, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center for Beta Cell Therapy in Diabetes

Jenny Meerding

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Immunology, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Laboratory of Translational Immunology and Multiplex Core Facility, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ursule van de Velde

Affiliations Diabetes Research Center and Academic Hospital, Free University-Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), 1090, Brussels, Belgium, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center for Beta Cell Therapy in Diabetes

Daniel Pipeleers

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center and Academic Hospital, Free University-Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), 1090, Brussels, Belgium

Pieter Gillard

Affiliations Dept. of Endocrinology, University Hospital, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center for Beta Cell Therapy in Diabetes

Bart Keymeulen

Affiliations Diabetes Research Center and Academic Hospital, Free University-Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), 1090, Brussels, Belgium, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center for Beta Cell Therapy in Diabetes

Wilco de Jager

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Immunology, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Laboratory of Translational Immunology and Multiplex Core Facility, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Bart O. Roep

boroep@lumc.nl

Affiliations Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center for Beta Cell Therapy in Diabetes

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CvdT AAVS JM WdJ BOR. Performed the experiments: AAVS JM WdJ. Analyzed the data: CRvdT AAVS DHL WdJ BOR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DHL UvdV DP PG BK WdJ. Wrote the paper: CRvdT AAVS DHL JM UvdV DP PG BK WdJ BOR.