About the Authors

Jun Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Liang, Yanping Li, Na Zhou

mwlj521@163.com (JL); nhlqi@channing.harvard.edu (LQ)

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, the Central Hospital of Xuzhou, Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yanping Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Liang, Yanping Li, Na Zhou

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Na Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Liang, Yanping Li, Na Zhou

Affiliation Oriental People's Hospital of Xuzhou, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Fei Teng

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the Central Hospital of Xuzhou, Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Jing Zhao

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the Central Hospital of Xuzhou, Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Caiyan Zou

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the Central Hospital of Xuzhou, Xuzhou Clinical School of Xuzhou Medical College, Affiliated Hospital of Southeast University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China

Lu Qi

mwlj521@163.com (JL); nhlqi@channing.harvard.edu (LQ)

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL LQ. Performed the experiments: JL YL NZ FT JZ CZ LQ. Analyzed the data: JL LQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL LQ. Wrote the paper: JL LQ. Submitted the revised version of the manuscript: JL LQ. Answered queries from editor and readers: JL LQ.