About the Authors

Nathalie Swales

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathalie Swales, Geert A. Martens

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Geert A. Martens

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathalie Swales, Geert A. Martens

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Stefan Bonné

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Yves Heremans

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Rehannah Borup

Affiliation Microarray Facility, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mark Van de Casteele

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Zhidong Ling

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Daniel Pipeleers

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Philippe Ravassard

Affiliation Centre de Recherche Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, CNRS UMR7225, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Finn Nielsen

Affiliation Microarray Facility, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jorge Ferrer

Affiliation Genomic Programming of Beta Cells Laboratory, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain

Harry Heimberg

harry.heimberg@vub.ac.be

Affiliation Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GAM SB FCN JF HH. Performed the experiments: NS GAM SB YH RB. Analyzed the data: NS GAM SB RB MVDC FCN JF HH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZL DP PR. Wrote the paper: NS GAM YH MVDC JF HH.