About the Authors

Lijun Ma

lima@wakehealth.edu

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Mariana Murea

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

James A. Snipes

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Alejandra Marinelarena

Affiliation PECRB, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Jacqueline Krüger

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Pamela J. Hicks

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Kurt A. Langberg

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Meredith A. Bostrom

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Jessica N. Cooke

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Daisuke Suzuki

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuya Babazono

Affiliation The Diabetes Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Uzu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

Sydney C. W. Tang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong

Ashis K. Mondal

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Neeraj K. Sharma

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Sayuko Kobes

Affiliation PECRB, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Peter A. Antinozzi

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Matthew Davis

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Swapan K. Das

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Neda Rasouli

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Philip A. Kern

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Nathan J. Shores

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

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Matthias Blüher

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Michael Stumvoll

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Donald W. Bowden

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Shiro Maeda

Affiliation Laboratory for Endocrinology and Metabolism, RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

John S. Parks

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Peter Kovacs

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Robert L. Hanson

Affiliation PECRB, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Leslie J. Baier

Affiliation PECRB, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Steven C. Elbein

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Barry I. Freedman

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.