About the Authors

Sanjay Basu

basus@stanford.edu

Affiliation Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Paula Yoffe

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Nancy Hills

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Robert H. Lustig

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB RL. Performed the experiments: SB PY RL. Analyzed the data: SB PY NH RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB PY NH. Wrote the paper: SB RL.