About the Authors

Ian M. Carroll

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Tamar Ringel-Kulka

Affiliation Gillings School of Global Public Health, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Laurent Ferrier

Affiliation INRA, UMR1331 Toxalim, Neuro-Gastroenterology & Nutrition group, Toulouse, France

Michael C. Wu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jennica P. Siddle

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Lionel Bueno

Affiliation INRA, UMR1331 Toxalim, Neuro-Gastroenterology & Nutrition group, Toulouse, France

Yehuda Ringel

ringel@med.unc.edu

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IMC TRK LB YR. Performed the experiments: IMC LF JPS. Analyzed the data: IMC TRK LB YR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCW LB YR. Wrote the manuscript: IMC TRK YR.