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  1. Department of Physiology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9101, 6500HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Jeroen H. F. de Baaij & Joost G. J. Hoenderop

  2. Department of Renal Medicine, University College London, London, UK

    Detlef Bockenhauer

  3. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Renal Unit, NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Detlef Bockenhauer

  4. Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

    Felix Claverie-Martin

  5. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Ewout J. Hoorn

  6. Department of Physiology, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Université Paris Cité, INSERM, CNRS, Paris, France

    Pascal Houillier

  7. Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Nine V. A. M. Knoers

  8. Department of General Pediatrics, University Children’s Hospital, Münster, Germany

    Martin Konrad & Karl Peter Schlingmann

  9. Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Nephrology and Metabolism, Charité Universitäts Medizin, Berlin, Germany

    Dominik Müller

  10. Department of Nephrology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Tom Nijenhuis

  11. Department of Genetics, Centre de Référence Des Maladies Rénales Héréditaires de L’Enfant Et de L’Adulte (MARHEA), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

    Rosa Vargas Poussou

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de Baaij, J.H.F., Bockenhauer, D., Claverie-Martin, F. et al. Comment to “Recommendation on an updated standardization of serum magnesium reference ranges”. Eur J Nutr 61, 4231–4233 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-022-03004-9

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