About the Authors

Siming Liu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Terumasa Okada

Current address: Nagareyama General Hospital, Chiba, Japan

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anke Assmann

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jamie Soto

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Chong Wee Liew

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Heiko Bugger

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Orian S. Shirihai

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

E. Dale Abel

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Rohit N. Kulkarni

Rohit.Kulkarni@joslin.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL OS EDA RK. Performed the experiments: SL TO AA JS CWL HB EDA. Analyzed the data: SL OS EDA RK. Wrote the paper: SL RK.