About the Authors
- Lijun Ma
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* E-mail: lima@wakehealth.edu
Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Mariana Murea
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- James A. Snipes
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Alejandra Marinelarena
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Affiliation PECRB, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
- Jacqueline Krüger
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Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Pamela J. Hicks
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Kurt A. Langberg
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Meredith A. Bostrom
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jessica N. Cooke
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Daisuke Suzuki
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Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan
- Tetsuya Babazono
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Affiliation The Diabetes Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- Takashi Uzu
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
- Sydney C. W. Tang
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
- Ashis K. Mondal
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Neeraj K. Sharma
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Sayuko Kobes
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Affiliation PECRB, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
- Peter A. Antinozzi
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Matthew Davis
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Swapan K. Das
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Neda Rasouli
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Philip A. Kern
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
- Nathan J. Shores
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Affiliations Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Transplant Hepatology, Abdominal Transplant Institute, Tulane Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Lawrence L. Rudel
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Matthias Blüher
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Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Michael Stumvoll
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Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Donald W. Bowden
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Shiro Maeda
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Affiliation Laboratory for Endocrinology and Metabolism, RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
- John S. Parks
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Peter Kovacs
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Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Robert L. Hanson
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Affiliation PECRB, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
- Leslie J. Baier
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Affiliation PECRB, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
- Steven C. Elbein
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
- Barry I. Freedman
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Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LM BIF. Performed the experiments: LM MM JAS AM JK PJH KAL MAB JNC AKM NKS MD NJS. Analyzed the data: LM RLH SK PK SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS TB TU SCWT PAA SKD NR PAK LLR MB MS DWB SM JSP PK RLH LJB SCE BIF. Wrote the paper: LM BIF.