About the Authors

Andrey A Ptitsyn

Affiliation Experimental Obesity Laboratory, Louisiana State University Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Sanjin Zvonic

Affiliation Stem Cell Laboratory, Louisiana State University Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Steven A Conrad

Affiliation Departments of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Medicine, and Emergency Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America,

L. Keith Scott

Affiliation Departments of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Medicine, and Emergency Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America,

Randall L Mynatt

Affiliation Experimental Obesity Laboratory, Louisiana State University Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Jeffrey M Gimble

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: GimbleJM@pbrc.edu

Affiliations Stem Cell Laboratory, Louisiana State University Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America , Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SZ, RLM, and JMG conceived and designed the experiments. SZ and JMG performed the experiments. AAP, SZ, SAC, and LKS analyzed the data. AAP, SZ, and JMG contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. AAP, SZ, RLM, and JMG wrote the paper.