About the Authors

Matthias J. Betz

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias J. Betz, Maximilian Bielohuby

Affiliation Endocrine Research Unit, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der LMU, Munich, Germany

Maximilian Bielohuby

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias J. Betz, Maximilian Bielohuby

Affiliation Endocrine Research Unit, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der LMU, Munich, Germany

Brigitte Mauracher

Affiliation Endocrine Research Unit, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der LMU, Munich, Germany

William Abplanalp

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Metabolic Diseases Institute, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Hans-Helge Müller

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Korbinian Pieper

Affiliation Clinic of Small Animal Surgery and Reproduction, Centre of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Juliane Ramisch

Affiliation Endocrine Research Unit, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der LMU, Munich, Germany

Matthias H. Tschöp

Affiliation Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Centre for Health and Environment and Technical University, Munich, Germany

Felix Beuschlein

Affiliation Endocrine Research Unit, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der LMU, Munich, Germany

Martin Bidlingmaier

Affiliation Endocrine Research Unit, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der LMU, Munich, Germany

Marc Slawik

Marc.Slawik@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Endocrine Research Unit, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der LMU, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJB M. Bielohuby FB M. Bidlingmaier MS. Performed the experiments: MJB M. Bielohuby BM WA JR MS. Analyzed the data: MJB M. Bielohuby WA HHM MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WA HHM KP MHT FB M. Bidlingmaier. Wrote the paper: MJB M. Bielohuby MS.