About the Authors
- Christos Argyropoulos
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christos Argyropoulos, Kai Wang
Affiliation Renal and Electrolyte Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Kai Wang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christos Argyropoulos, Kai Wang
Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Sara McClarty
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Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- David Huang
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Affiliations Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Luxembourg Center for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
- Jose Bernardo
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Affiliation Renal and Electrolyte Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Demetrius Ellis
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Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Trevor Orchard
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- David Galas
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Affiliations Luxembourg Center for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Pacific Nothwest Diabetes Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- John Johnson
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* E-mail: johnsonj@pitt.edu
Affiliation Renal and Electrolyte Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
While engaged in this project, Dr. Christos Argyropoulos was a salaried employee of the University of Pittsburgh. Since the completion of the work presented herein Dr. Argyropoulos has served as a consultant to the Medical Department of the Greek Affiliate of Abbott Laboratories, a global healthcare company that manufactures diabetes care products and develops pharmaceuticals for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy. The views and opinions in this research project are solely those of the contributing authors and do not necessarily reflect those of Abbott Laboratories.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JJ DG TO KW CA JB DE. Performed the experiments: KW SM DH. Analyzed the data: CA KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KW DG TO DE SM DH CA. Wrote the paper: CA JJ KW DG JB TO DE.