About the Authors

Jacques-Antoine Haefliger

Affiliation Service of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

David Martin

Affiliation Service of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Dimitri Favre

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Morphology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Yannick Petremand

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Lucia Mazzolai

Affiliation Service of Vascular Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Amar Abderrahmani

Affiliation European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, UMR 8199, University of Lille Nord de France, Lille, France

Paolo Meda

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland

Gérard Waeber

Affiliation Service of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Florent Allagnat

Florent.Allagnat@chuv.ch

Affiliation Service of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA GW FA JAH. Performed the experiments: FA DM YP DF JAH. Analyzed the data: FA JAH PM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA GW LM. Wrote the paper: FA JAH PM.