About the Authors

Roger G. E. Palfree

Affiliation Endocrine Research Laboratory, Experimental Therapeutics and Metabolism, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Hugh P. J. Bennett

Affiliation Endocrine Research Laboratory, Experimental Therapeutics and Metabolism, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Andrew Bateman

andrew.bateman@muhc.mcgill.ca

Affiliation Endocrine Research Laboratory, Experimental Therapeutics and Metabolism, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RGEP HPJB AB. Performed the experiments: RGEP AB. Analyzed the data: RGEP AB. Wrote the paper: RGEP HPJB AB. Data collection, verification and annotation: RGEP.