About the Authors

Laura Brugnara

Affiliations Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain

Roger Mallol

Affiliations Metabolomics Platform, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Reus, Spain, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), Reus, Spain

Josep Ribalta

Affiliations Unitat de Recerca en Lípids i Arteriosclerosi (URLA), Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Reus, Spain, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), Reus, Spain, Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain

Maria Vinaixa

Affiliations Metabolomics Platform, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Reus, Spain, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), Reus, Spain, Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain

Serafín Murillo

Affiliations Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain

Teresa Casserras

Affiliation Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Bioinformatics Core Facility, Barcelona, Spain

Montse Guardiola

Affiliations Unitat de Recerca en Lípids i Arteriosclerosi (URLA), Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Reus, Spain, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), Reus, Spain, Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain

Joan Carles Vallvé

Affiliations Unitat de Recerca en Lípids i Arteriosclerosi (URLA), Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Reus, Spain, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), Reus, Spain, Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain

Susana G. Kalko

Affiliation Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Bioinformatics Core Facility, Barcelona, Spain

Xavier Correig

Affiliations Metabolomics Platform, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Reus, Spain, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), Reus, Spain, Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain

Anna Novials

anovials@clinic.ub.es

Affiliations Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LB RM JR XC AN. Performed the experiments: LB RM MV SM MG JCV. Analyzed the data: RM LB JR TC SGK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LB RM JR MV SM MG JCV. Wrote the paper: LB RM JR AN.