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The authors thank A. Knopff, A. Wosch, V. Dietrich, C. Ried, C. Matzke, and M. Scholz for expert technical assistance, and M. Bunk, S. Hummel, M. Krasmann, and A. Huppert for clinical assistance. We also thank all participants of the BABYDIAB, BABYDIET, and Munich family studies. This study was supported in part by grants from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF 17-2012-16), and from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to the Competence Network for Diabetes mellitus (FKZ 01GI0805).
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Krause, S., Beyerlein, A., Winkler, C. et al. Soluble interleukin-2 receptor alpha in preclinical type 1 diabetes. Acta Diabetol 51, 517–518 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00592-013-0512-8
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