About the Authors

Xuqi Chen

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology and Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology or the Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rebecca McClusky

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology and Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology or the Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jenny Chen

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Simon W. Beaven

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Peter Tontonoz

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Molecular Biology Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Arthur P. Arnold

Contributed equally to this work with: Arthur P. Arnold, Karen Reue

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology and Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology or the Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Karen Reue

Contributed equally to this work with: Arthur P. Arnold, Karen Reue

reuek@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Molecular Biology Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC APA KR. Performed the experiments: XC RM JC SWB KR. Analyzed the data: XC JC APA KR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PT. Wrote the paper: APA KR.