About the Authors

Timothy R. Braun

Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy R. Braun, Latonya F. Been

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Latonya F. Been

Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy R. Braun, Latonya F. Been

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Akhil Singhal

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Jacob Worsham

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Sarju Ralhan

Affiliation Section of Cardiology, Hero Dayanand Medical College and Hospital Heart Institute, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Gurpreet S. Wander

Affiliation Section of Cardiology, Hero Dayanand Medical College and Hospital Heart Institute, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

John C. Chambers

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Jaspal S. Kooner

Affiliation National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Christopher E. Aston

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Dharambir K. Sanghera

Dharambir-sanghera@ouhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DKS. Performed the experiments: TB LB AS JW SR GW. Analyzed the data: TB LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DKS JK JC. Wrote the paper: DKS TB LB.