About the Authors
- Rasika A. Mathias
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* E-mail: rmathias@jhmi.edu
Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Wenqing Fu
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Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Joshua M. Akey
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Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Hannah C. Ainsworth
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Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Wake Forest Center for Botanical Lipids and Inflammatory Disease Prevention, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Dara G. Torgerson
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Ingo Ruczinski
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Susan Sergeant
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Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Wake Forest Center for Botanical Lipids and Inflammatory Disease Prevention, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Kathleen C. Barnes
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Affiliation Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Floyd H. Chilton
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Affiliations Wake Forest Center for Botanical Lipids and Inflammatory Disease Prevention, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Physiology/Pharmacology, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
The senior author (F.H.C.) has published books with Rodale and Simon and Schuster and is a founder and consultant to GeneSmart Health, Inc., which may be partially related to his research. These potential conflicts of interest have been disclosed to Wake Forest University Health Sciences and to outside sponsors and are institutionally managed. No other authors have a conflict of interest. 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: RAM WF JMA DT. Performed the experiments: RAM WF JMA DT. Analyzed the data: RAM WF JMA DT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RAM WF JMA DT KCB SS FHC. Wrote the paper: RAM WF JMA HCA DT IR SS KCB FHC.