About the Authors

Jun-Wei Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun-Wei Zhou, Stephen K. W. Tsui

Current address: The School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Stephen K. W. Tsui

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun-Wei Zhou, Stephen K. W. Tsui

Current address: The School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Maggie C. Y. Ng

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Center for Diabetes Research, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Hua Geng

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, Department of Clinical Oncology, Sir YK Pao Center for Cancer, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Sai-Kam Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Wing-Yee So

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Ronald C. Ma

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Ying Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Qian Tao

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, Department of Clinical Oncology, Sir YK Pao Center for Cancer, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Zhen-Yu Chen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Juliana C. N. Chan

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, Hong Kong, China

Yuan-Yuan Ho

yyh2@columbia.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Departments of Biostatistics and Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-YH J-WZ JCC. Performed the experiments: J-WZ HG. Analyzed the data: J-WZ Y-YH MCYN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J-WZ Y-YH SKWT MCYN S-KL W-YS RCM YW Z-YC QT JCNC. Wrote the paper: J-WZ Y-YH.