About the Authors

Danielle G. Lemay

Affiliation Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Olivia A. Ballard

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Maria A. Hughes

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ardythe L. Morrow

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Nelson D. Horseman

Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Laurie A. Nommsen-Rivers

laurie.nommsen-rivers@cchmc.org

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LAN-R ALM NDH. Performed the experiments: LAN-R OAB MAH. Analyzed the data: LAN-R DGL. Wrote the paper: DGL LAN-R. Development of the Bioinformatics analysis plan: DGL LAN-R. Bioinformatics analysis: DGL. qPCR experimental design: DGL NDH MAH LAN-R. Design and execution of the milk fat globule processing experiments and identification of intact cells within the milk fat layer: OAB ALM NDH LAN-R. Constructive feedback on each draft of the manuscript: OAB ALM MAH NDH.