About the Authors

Miriam Ejarque

Affiliations Diabetes and Obesity Research Laboratory, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas, Barcelona, Spain, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Joan Mir-Coll

Affiliations Diabetes and Obesity Research Laboratory, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Ramon Gomis

Affiliations Diabetes and Obesity Research Laboratory, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas, Barcelona, Spain, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Michael S. German

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

Francis C. Lynn

Affiliations Diabetes Research Program, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Rosa Gasa

rgasa@clinic.ub.es

Affiliations Diabetes and Obesity Research Laboratory, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ME FCL MSG R. Gasa. Performed the experiments: ME JMC FCL R. Gasa. Analyzed the data: ME R. Gomis R. Gasa. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSG R. Gomis. Wrote the paper: ME R. Gasa.