About the Authors
- Rima Kaddurah-Daouk
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* E-mail: kaddu001@mc.duke.edu (RKD); rkrauss@chori.org (RMK)
Affiliation Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Rebecca A. Baillie
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Affiliation Rosa and Company, Cupertino, California, United States of America
- Hongjie Zhu
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Affiliation Department of Statistics and Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
- Zhao-Bang Zeng
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Affiliation Department of Statistics and Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
- Michelle M. Wiest
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Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America
- Uyen Thao Nguyen
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Affiliation Lipomics Technologies-Tethys Bioscience, West Sacramento, California, United States of America
- Katie Wojnoonski
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Affiliation Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America
- Steven M. Watkins
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Affiliation Lipomics Technologies-Tethys Bioscience, West Sacramento, California, United States of America
- Miles Trupp
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Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Group, AI Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, United States of America
- Ronald M. Krauss
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* E-mail: kaddu001@mc.duke.edu (RKD); rkrauss@chori.org (RMK)
Affiliation Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
RKD is equity holder in a biotechnology company in the metabolomics domain, and also an inventor on patents in the metabolomics field. RKD, RMK, RAB, and SW are inventors on a patent application on statin effects on metabolism. RAB is an employee of Rosa and Company. SW is an employee of Tethys Bioscience. MT is an employee of SRI International. In none of these cases do these affiliations alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RKD RMK. Performed the experiments: MMW UTN SW. Analyzed the data: HZ ZZ KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMW UTN SW. Wrote the paper: RAB MT.