About the Authors

Todd M. Brusko

Contributed equally to this work with: Todd M. Brusko, Richard C. Koya

Affiliation Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Richard C. Koya

Contributed equally to this work with: Todd M. Brusko, Richard C. Koya

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shirley Zhu

Affiliation Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michael R. Lee

Affiliation Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Amy L. Putnam

Affiliation Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Stephanie A. McClymont

Affiliation Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michael I. Nishimura

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Shuhong Han

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Lung-Ji Chang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mark A. Atkinson

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Antoni Ribas

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Bluestone

Jeff.Bluestone@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TMB RCK JAB. Performed the experiments: TMB RCK MRL ALP SAM SH. Analyzed the data: TMB RCK ALP SAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SZ MIN SH LJC MAA AR. Wrote the paper: TMB JAB.