About the Authors

Stella Aslibekyan

saslibek@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Mark O. Goodarzi

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alexis C. Frazier-Wood

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Xiaofei Yan

Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Marguerite R. Irvin

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Eric Kim

Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hemant K. Tiwari

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Xiuqing Guo

Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Robert J. Straka

Affiliation Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Department, College of Pharmacy, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Kent D. Taylor

Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael Y. Tsai

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Paul N. Hopkins

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Stanley G. Korenman

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

Ingrid B. Borecki

Contributed equally to this work with: Ingrid B. Borecki, Jose M. Ordovas, Donna K. Arnett

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Yii-Der I. Chen

Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jose M. Ordovas

Contributed equally to this work with: Ingrid B. Borecki, Jose M. Ordovas, Donna K. Arnett

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Atherothrombosis and Imaging, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Madrid, Spain, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados Alimentacion, Madrid, Spain, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jerome I. Rotter

Affiliation Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Donna K. Arnett

Contributed equally to this work with: Ingrid B. Borecki, Jose M. Ordovas, Donna K. Arnett

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA ACFW MRI HKT RJS MYT PNH IBB JMO DKA KDT JIR YIC SGK. Analyzed the data: SA XG XY EK. Wrote the paper: SA MOG. Contributed equally as senior investigators in the design and execution of the GOLDN Study: IBB JMO DKA. Oversaw the specific research detailed in the paper: DKA.