About the Authors

Mandy Sawitzky

Affiliation Laboratory for Mouse Genetics, Research Unit Genetics & Biometry, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Anja Zeissler

Affiliation Laboratory for Mouse Genetics, Research Unit Genetics & Biometry, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Martina Langhammer

Affiliation Laboratory for Mouse Genetics, Research Unit Genetics & Biometry, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Maximilian Bielohuby

Affiliation Endocrine Research Unit, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Peggy Stock

Affiliation ZAMED, Molecular Hepatology, Martin-Luther University, Halle, Germany

Harald M. Hammon

Affiliation Research Unit Nutritional Physiology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Solvig Görs

Affiliation Research Unit Nutritional Physiology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Cornelia C. Metges

Affiliation Research Unit Nutritional Physiology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Barbara J. M. Stoehr

Affiliation Endocrine Research Unit, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Martin Bidlingmaier

Affiliation Endocrine Research Unit, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Carolin Fromm-Dornieden

Affiliation Molecular Biology, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

Bernhard G. Baumgartner

Affiliation Molecular Biology, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

Bruno Christ

Affiliation ZAMED, Molecular Hepatology, Martin-Luther University, Halle, Germany

Bertram Brenig

Affiliation Molecular Biology, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

Gerhard Binder

Affiliation Pediatric Endocrinology, University-Children's Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Friedrich Metzger

Affiliation F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., CNS Discovery Research, Basel, Switzerland

Ulla Renne

Affiliation Laboratory for Mouse Genetics, Research Unit Genetics & Biometry, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Andreas Hoeflich

hoeflich@fbn-dummerstorf.de

Affiliation Laboratory for Mouse Genetics, Research Unit Genetics & Biometry, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Competing Interests

FM was employed by F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd during the time of the study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS AZ ML MB PS HH SG CM BS MB CFD BB BC BGB GB FM UR AH. Performed the experiments: MS AZ ML MB PS HH SG CM BS MB CFD BB BC BGB GB FM AH. Analyzed the data: MS AZ ML PS HH SG CM BS CFD BB BC BGB GB FM UR AH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS AZ ML SG CM BS BGB GB UR AH. Wrote the paper: MS AZ ML MB PS HH SG CM BS MB CFD BB BC BGB GB FM UR AH.