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"Conflict of interest The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."

"The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This study is mainly funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (#486744). Start-up fundings were also received from the Axe Endocrinologie et Néphrologie of the Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, the Centre de recherche Nutrition Santé et Société (NUTRISS) of the Institut sur la nutrition et des aliments fonctionnels, Université Laval), as well as from the Centre de recherche en reproduction et développement et santé intergénérationnelle (CRDSI) of the Université Laval. EB received graduate scholarship awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Fonds de recherche en Santé du Québec. A-SM received a research scholar Junior 2 from the Fonds de recherche en Santé du Québec. Funding agencies had no role in designing this study or in writing this manuscript."