About the Authors

Maria Vinaixa

maria.vinaixa@urv.cat (MV); oscar.yanes@urv.cat (OY)

Affiliations Metabolomics Platform of the Spanish Biomedical Research Center in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Reus, Spain

Miguel Angel Rodriguez

Affiliations Metabolomics Platform of the Spanish Biomedical Research Center in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Reus, Spain

Sara Samino

Affiliations Metabolomics Platform of the Spanish Biomedical Research Center in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Reus, Spain

Marta Díaz

Affiliations CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas, Barcelona, Spain, Endocrinology Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu-Universitat de Barcelona, Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain

Antoni Beltran

Affiliation Metabolomics Platform of the Spanish Biomedical Research Center in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain

Roger Mallol

Affiliations Metabolomics Platform of the Spanish Biomedical Research Center in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Reus, Spain

Cinta Bladé

Affiliations Metabolomics Platform of the Spanish Biomedical Research Center in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Reus, Spain

Lourdes Ibañez

Affiliations CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas, Barcelona, Spain, Endocrinology Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu-Universitat de Barcelona, Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain

Xavier Correig

Affiliations Metabolomics Platform of the Spanish Biomedical Research Center in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Reus, Spain

Oscar Yanes

maria.vinaixa@urv.cat (MV); oscar.yanes@urv.cat (OY)

Affiliation Metabolomics Platform of the Spanish Biomedical Research Center in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LI XC CB MR MV MD OY. Performed the experiments: MD MR SS AB. Analyzed the data: MV SS RM CB MR OY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR RM MV. Wrote the paper: MV LI OY.