About the Authors

Edmond K. Kabagambe

edmond.kabagambe@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and the Nutrition Obesity Research Center, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jose M. Ordovas

Affiliation Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul N. Hopkins

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Michael Y. Tsai

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Donna K. Arnett

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and the Nutrition Obesity Research Center, School of Public Health, 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: EKK JMO PNH MYT DKA. Performed the experiments: EKK JMO PNH MYT DKA. Analyzed the data: EKK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EKK JMO PNH MYT DKA. Wrote the paper: EKK. Edited the drafts and approved the manuscript: JMO PNH MYT DKA.