About the Authors

Susana Granell

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Clara Serra-Juhé

Affiliation Unitat de Genètica, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

Gabriel Á. Martos-Moreno

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación La Princesa, Madrid, Spain

Francisca Díaz

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación La Princesa, Madrid, Spain

Luis A. Pérez-Jurado

Affiliation Unitat de Genètica, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

Giulia Baldini

gbaldini@uams.edu (GB); argentefen@terra.es (JA)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Jesús Argente

gbaldini@uams.edu (GB); argentefen@terra.es (JA)

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, Department of Pediatrics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de fisiopatología de la obesidad y nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG LAP-J GB JA. Performed the experiments: SG CS-J GAM-M FD. Analyzed the data: SG LAP-J GB JA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LAP-J GB JA. Wrote the paper: SG GB JA.