About the Authors

Sunita K. Agarwal

SunitaA@mail.nih.gov (SKA); jothi@mail.nih.gov (RJ)

Affiliation Metabolic Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Raja Jothi

SunitaA@mail.nih.gov (SKA); jothi@mail.nih.gov (RJ)

Affiliation Systems Biology Section, Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that co-author Raja Jothi is a PLoS ONE Editorial Board member, and that this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKA RJ. Performed the experiments: SKA. Analyzed the data: RJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKA RJ. Wrote the paper: SKA RJ.