About the Authors

Gesine Flehmig

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Markus Scholz

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Nora Klöting

Affiliation IFB ObesityDiseases, Junior Research Group Animal Models, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Mathias Fasshauer

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Anke Tönjes

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Michael Stumvoll

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Byung-Soo Youn

bluma@medizin.uni-leipzig.de (MB); byung4jc@gmail.com (BSY)

Affiliations AdipoGen, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Immunomodulation Research Center, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea

Matthias Blüher

bluma@medizin.uni-leipzig.de (MB); byung4jc@gmail.com (BSY)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GF M. Scholz NK MF AT M. Stumvoll MB. Performed the experiments: GF NK MF AT. Analyzed the data: GF M. Scholz MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BSY NK MF AT MB. Wrote the paper: GF M. Scholz MB.