About the Authors

Rui Feng

ruifeng@upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yinghua Wu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gun Ho Jang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jose M. Ordovas

Affiliations Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Population Genetics, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Madrid, Spain

Donna Arnett

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The 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: RF. Performed the experiments: RF YW. Analyzed the data: RF YW GJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RF JO DA. Wrote the paper: RF YW GJ DA.