About the Authors

Neil M. Johannsen

neil.johannsen@pbrc.edu

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Damon L. Swift

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

William D. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Vishwa D. Dixit

Affiliation Immunobiology Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Conrad P. Earnest

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Steven N. Blair

Affiliation Department of Exercise Science and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Timothy S. Church

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NMJ DLS TSC. Performed the experiments: CPE SNB TSC. Analyzed the data: NMJ DLS WDJ TSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CPE SNB TSC. Wrote the paper: NMJ DLS VDD TSC.