About the Authors

Geert A. Martens

geert.martens@vub.ac.be

Affiliations Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Department of Clinical Chemistry and Radioimmunology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Lei Jiang

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Karine H. Hellemans

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Geert Stangé

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Harry Heimberg

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Finn C. Nielsen

Affiliation Microarray Facility, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Olivier Sand

Affiliation Bioinformatique des Génomes & des Réseaux (BiGRe), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Jacques Van Helden

Affiliation Bioinformatique des Génomes & des Réseaux (BiGRe), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Frans K. Gorus

Affiliations Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Department of Clinical Chemistry and Radioimmunology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Daniel G. Pipeleers

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM DP. Performed the experiments: GM LJ KH FN HH GS. Analyzed the data: GM LJ OS JVH DP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH FN KH. Wrote the paper: GM KH HH FN JVH FG DP.