About the Authors

Aurore Carre

Affiliation INSERM U845, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France

Latif Rachdi

Affiliation INSERM U845, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France

Elodie Tron

Affiliation INSERM U845, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France

Bénédicte Richard

Affiliation INSERM U845, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France

Mireille Castanet

Affiliation INSERM U845, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France

Martin Schlumberger

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France

Jean-Michel Bidart

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biology, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France

Gabor Szinnai

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabor Szinnai, Michel Polak

Affiliations Paediatric Endocrinology, University Children's Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Michel Polak

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabor Szinnai, Michel Polak

michel.polak@nck.aphp.fr

Affiliations INSERM U845, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France, Paediatric Endocrine Unit, Necker Enfants-Malades Hospital, and Centre des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, AP-HP, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. We declare commercial funders: HRA Pharma and Electricité de France do not alter the adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC GS MP. Performed the experiments: AC ET BR. Analyzed the data: AC LR GS MP. Wrote the paper: AC GS. Reviewed the paper: LR MC MS J-MB MP.