About the Authors

Gilberto Vargas-Alarcon

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico, Atherosclerosis Study Group, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico

Hector Gonzalez-Pacheco

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliations Atherosclerosis Study Group, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico, Coronary Unit, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico

Oscar Perez-Mendez

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico, Atherosclerosis Study Group, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico

Rosalinda Posadas-Sanchez

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico

Guillermo Cardoso-Saldaña

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico

Julian Ramirez-Bello

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Research Unit on Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Hospital Juarez de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Galileo Escobedo

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Unit of the Experimental Medicine, Hospital General de Mexico, Dr. Eduardo Liceaga, Mexico City, Mexico

Betzabe Nieto-Lima

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico

Jose Manuel Fragoso

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mfragoso1275@yahoo.com.mx

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico, Atherosclerosis Study Group, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.