About the Authors

Srividya Vasu

Contributed equally to this work with: Srividya Vasu, R. Charlotte Moffett

s.vasu@ulster.ac.uk

Affiliation SAAD Centre for Pharmacy and Diabetes, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

R. Charlotte Moffett

Contributed equally to this work with: Srividya Vasu, R. Charlotte Moffett

Affiliation SAAD Centre for Pharmacy and Diabetes, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

Bernard Thorens

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Peter R. Flatt

Affiliation SAAD Centre for Pharmacy and Diabetes, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

Competing Interests

This study was supported in part by an EFSD/Boehringer Ingelheim Grant. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PRF. Performed the experiments: SV RCM. Analyzed the data: SV RCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SV RCM PRF. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SV RCM PRF. Contributed to interpretation of data and revised the manuscript for intellectual content: BT.