About the Authors
- Nay M. Htun
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Affiliations Atherothrombosis and Vascular Biology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Dianna J. Magliano
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Affiliation Clinical Diabetes and Epidemiology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
- Zhen-Yu Zhang
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Affiliation Studies Coordinating Centre, Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Jasmine Lyons
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Affiliation Clinical Diabetes and Epidemiology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
- Thibault Petit
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Affiliation Studies Coordinating Centre, Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Esther Nkuipou-Kenfack
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Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hanover, Germany
- Adela Ramirez-Torres
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Affiliations Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hanover, Germany, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Constantin von zur Muhlen
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Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Heart Centre Freiburg, Germany
- David Maahs
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Affiliations Department of Paediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Barbara Davis Centre for Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Joost P. Schanstra
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Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Toulouse, France, Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse, France
- Claudia Pontillo
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Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hanover, Germany
- Martin Pejchinovski
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Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hanover, Germany
- Janet K. Snell-Bergeon
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Affiliation Barbara Davis Centre for Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Christian Delles
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Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Harald Mischak
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Affiliations Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hanover, Germany, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Jan A. Staessen
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Affiliations Studies Coordinating Centre, Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, R&D VitaK Group, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Jonathan E. Shaw
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Affiliation Clinical Diabetes and Epidemiology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
- Thomas Koeck
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Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Koeck, Karlheinz Peter
Affiliation Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, Hanover, Germany
- Karlheinz Peter
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Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Koeck, Karlheinz Peter
* E-mail: Karlheinz.Peter@bakeridi.edu.au
Affiliations Atherothrombosis and Vascular Biology, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Competing Interests
The authors have declared the following potential conflict of interest: H. Mischak is the founder and coowner of Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH, who developed the CE-MS technology for clinical application. E. Nkuipou-Kenfack, A. Ramirez-Torres, C. Pontillo, M. Pejchinovski and T. Koeck are employees of Mosaiques Diagnostics GmbH. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: NMH DJM TK KP. Data curation: NMH TK DJM. Formal analysis: NMH DJM CP ENK ART MP TK KP. Funding acquisition: HM KP JAS JPS. Investigation: NMH DJM CP ENK ZYZ JL TK TP CVZM DM JPS JKSB CD HM JAS JES KP. Methodology: NMH DJM TK HM KP. Project administration: HM KP. Resources: NMH JAS CD HM KP. Software: NMH DJM ENK TK HM KP. Supervision: HM KP. Validation: NMH DJM HM TK KP. Visualization: NMH DJM TK KP. Writing – original draft: NMH DJM CP ENK ZYZ JL TK TP CVZM DM JPS JKSB CD HM JAS JES KP. Writing – review & editing: NMH DJM ENK HM JES KP MP.