About the Authors

Timothy S. Church

tim.church@pbrc.edu

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Diana M. Thomas

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, United States of America

Catrine Tudor-Locke

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Peter T. Katzmarzyk

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Conrad P. Earnest

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Ruben Q. Rodarte

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Corby K. Martin

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Steven N. Blair

Affiliation Arnold School of Public Health, Departments of Exercise Science and Epidemiology/Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina United States of America

Claude Bouchard

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TSC DMT RQR CB. Performed the experiments: TSC CKM. Analyzed the data: PTK CPE SNB CTL. Wrote the paper: TSC DMT CTL SBB CB.