About the Authors
- Kim E. Jie
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kim E. Jie, Karien van der Putten
Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Karien van der Putten
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kim E. Jie, Karien van der Putten
Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, Meander Medical Center Amersfoort, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
- Sebastiaan Wesseling
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Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Jaap A. Joles
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Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Marloes W. Bergevoet
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Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Floor Pepers-de Kort
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Affiliation Service XS B.V., Leiden, The Netherlands
- Pieter A. Doevendans
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Affiliation Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Yutaka Yasui
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Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- Qi Liu
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Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- Marianne C. Verhaar
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Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Carlo A. Gaillard
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Meander Medical Center Amersfoort, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, Department of Nephrology, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Branko Braam
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* E-mail: branko.braam@ualberta.ca
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Competing Interests
FPdK is employed by ServiceXS BV and is co-author since she assisted strongly in the efficient processing of the ILLUMINA microarrays and in the basic analysis of the array data, for which regular service fees were paid to the company. Roche Pharmaceuticals provided an unrestricted grant to support the study. 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: CG BB. Performed the experiments: KJ KvdP MB FPdK. Analyzed the data: KJ SW JAJ MB YY QL BB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY QL BB FPdK SW JAJ. Wrote the paper: KJ BB. Supervision of KJ KvdP MB: MCV CG BB. Critical review of the manuscript: PD MCV JAJ.