About the Authors

Trine Welløv Boesgaard

tweb@steno.dk

Affiliation Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anette Prior Gjesing

Affiliation Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Niels Grarup

Affiliation Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jarno Rutanen

Affiliation Department of Medicine University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

Per-Anders Jansson

Affiliation The Lundberg Laboratory for diabetes Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Division of Endocrinology Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Marta Letizia Hribal

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy

Giorgio Sesti

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy

Andreas Fritsche

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dialectology, Nephrology, Vascular Medicine and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany

Norbert Stefan

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dialectology, Nephrology, Vascular Medicine and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany

Harald Staiger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dialectology, Nephrology, Vascular Medicine and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany

Hans Häring

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dialectology, Nephrology, Vascular Medicine and Clinical Chemistry, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany

Ulf Smith

Affiliation The Lundberg Laboratory for diabetes Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Division of Endocrinology Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Markku Laakso

Affiliation Department of Medicine University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

Oluf Pedersen

Affiliations Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Torben Hansen

Affiliations Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, Faculty of Health Science, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark

for the EUGENE2 Consortium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS AF HH US ML OP TH. Performed the experiments: MLH GS AF HH ML OP TH. Analyzed the data: TWB APG NG JR NS HS ML TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TWB NG PAJ MLH NS HS ML TH. Wrote the paper: TWB APG TH.