About the Authors
- Tamara R. Castañeda
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Affiliation Institute for Clinical Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, Germany
- William Abplanalp
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Affiliation Metabolic Disease Institute, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Sung Hee Um
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Affiliations Department of Molecular Oncogenesis, Metabolic Disease Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
- Paul T. Pfluger
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Affiliation HelmholtzZentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg/Munich, Germany
- Brigitte Schrott
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Affiliation Metabolic Disease Institute, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Kimberly Brown
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Affiliation Metabolic Disease Institute, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Erin Grant
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Affiliation Metabolic Disease Institute, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Larissa Carnevalli
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Affiliation Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine (HI-STEM), Germany Division of Stem Cells and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Stephen C. Benoit
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Affiliation Metabolic Disease Institute, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Donald A. Morgan
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Dean Gilham
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Affiliation Resverlogix Corporation (TSX:RVX), NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- David Y. Hui
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Centre of Arteriosclerosis Studies, Metabolic Disease Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Kamal Rahmouni
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- George Thomas
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncogenesis, Metabolic Disease Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Sara C. Kozma
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncogenesis, Metabolic Disease Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Deborah J. Clegg
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Matthias H. Tschöp
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* E-mail: matthias.tschoep@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Affiliation HelmholtzZentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg/Munich, Germany
Competing Interests
The work done by DG was carried out while he was a post-doc at the University of Cincinnati, after which he moved to Resverlogix. Hence Resverlogix is not affiliated with the work or the materials used in the publication in any way, and there is no competing interest associated with Resverlogix. 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: MHT DJC DYH SCB GT SCK. Performed the experiments: TRC WA SHU PTP BS KB EG LC DAM DG. Analyzed the data: TRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHT GT SK DH KR. Wrote the paper: TRC MHT DJC DYH SCB GT SK. Interpreted data: MHT DJC DYH SCB GT SK. Co-edited manuscript: WA SHU EG LC DG.