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doi: 10.3967/bes2015.117 This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation major international (regional) joint research project (81220108006) to WJ; Young Scientists Fund of National Natural Science Foundation (81200292); ‘Chen Guang’ project supported by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation (13CG11); Shanghai Rising-Star Program (13QA1402900); Hong Kong Scholars Program (XJ2013035); and Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China (137000) to HL. 1. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Clinical Center for Diabetes, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus, Shanghai Key Clinical Center for Metabolic Disease, Shanghai 200025, China; 2. Department of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China Research Highlight