Giacomo Gastaldi: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Diana Gomes: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – original draft
Philippe Schneiter: Role: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Xavier Montet: Role: Data curationRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Luc Tappy: Role: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Sophie Clément: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
Project administrationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draft
Francesco Negro:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4046-4806
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Project administrationRole:
ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draft
Jee-Fu Huang: Role: Editor
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PLoS ONE
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Publication date
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6
June
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 6
Electronic Location Identifier: e0217751
Affiliations
[1
]
Division of Endocrinology, diabetology, hypertension and nutrition, Geneva University
Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
[2
]
Department of Pathology and immunology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
[3
]
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne,
Lausanne, Switzerland
[4
]
Division of Radiology, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
[5
]
Division of Clinical Pathology, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
[6
]
Division of Gastroenterology and hepatology, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva,
Switzerland
Kaohsiung Medical University, TAIWAN
Author notes
Competing Interests: F.N. has received research grants from Gilead and AbbVie, and is advising Gilead,
AbbVie and Merck. This does not alter our adherence to PLoS One policies on sharing
data and materials.
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217751
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the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001711, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung;
Award ID: 314730-166609
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4046-4806
Francesco Negro
Funded by: Fondation pour la Recherche sur le Diabète
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4046-4806
Francesco Negro
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100005564, Gilead Sciences;
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4046-4806
Francesco Negro
This work was supported by: (FN) Gilead Sciences, Inc. Foster City, CA, US,
https://www.gilead.com/; Swiss National Science Foundation (314730-166609 to F.N.),
http://www.snf.ch/en/Pages/default.aspx; FLAGS Foundation and the Fondation pour la Recherche sur le Diabète, Geneva, Switzerland,
http://www.fondation-diabete.ch/. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision
to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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