1Epigenetics in Human Health and Disease Laboratory

2Department of Diabetes, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

3Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

4School of Science, STEM College, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

5Institute for Clinical Diabetology, Research Group Diabetic Nephropathy, German Diabetes Centre, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany

6Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong SAR, China.

7Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR

8Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR, China

9School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK, Hong Kong SAR, China

10Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

11University College Copenhagen, Faculty of Health, Department of Technology, Biomedical Laboratory Science, Copenhagen, Denmark.

aCorresponding Author Mailing Address, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, 75 Commercial Road, Melbourne 3004, Vic, Australia. Professor Assam El-Osta [email protected]

*authors contributed equally

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