About the Authors

Maria De Luca

mdeluca2@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Nutrition and Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Diabetes Research Training Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yann C. Klimentidis

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Krista Casazza

Affiliation Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Michelle Moses Chambers

Affiliation Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Ruth Cho

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Susan T. Harbison

Affiliation Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Patricia Jumbo-Lucioni

Affiliation Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Shaoyan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jeff Leips

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jose R. Fernandez

Affiliations Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Nutrition and Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Diabetes Research Training Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDL JRF. Performed the experiments: MMC RC STH PJL SZ JL. Analyzed the data: MDL YCK KC STH JL JRF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDL. Wrote the paper: MDL. Read, critically revised, and approved the final manuscript: YCK KC MMC RC STH PJL SZ JL JRF.