About the Authors

Jean Z. Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean Z. Lin, Douglas H. Sieglaff

Affiliations Genomic Medicine, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Douglas H. Sieglaff

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean Z. Lin, Douglas H. Sieglaff

Affiliation Genomic Medicine, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chaoshen Yuan

Affiliation Diabetes Center, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jing Su

Affiliation Radiology Department, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

AnithaChristy S. Arumanayagam

Affiliation Genomic Medicine, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sharareh Firouzbakht

Affiliation Genomic Medicine, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jaime J. Cantu Pompa

Affiliations Genomic Medicine, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Research and Innovation, Tec de Monterrey School of Medicine and Health Science, Monterrey, Mexico

Frances Denoto Reynolds

Affiliation Diabetes Center, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Xiabo Zhou

Affiliation Radiology Department, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Aleksandra Cvoro

Affiliation Genomic Medicine, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Paul Webb

pwebb@tmhs.org

Affiliation Genomic Medicine, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZL DHS AC PW. Performed the experiments: JZL DHS CY ASA SF JJCP FDR AC. Analyzed the data: JZL DHS JS XZ AC PW. Wrote the paper: JZL DHS AC PW.