About the Authors

Imran S. Khan

Affiliation UCSF Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Chong Y. Park

Current Address: ES Cell Targeting Core, Research Resource Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliations UCSF Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, WM Keck Center for Noncoding RNAs, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Anastasia Mavropoulos

Current Address: Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliations UCSF Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Nikki Shariat

Current Address: Department of Biology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliations UCSF Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, WM Keck Center for Noncoding RNAs, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Joshua L. Pollack

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Andrea J. Barczak

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

David J. Erle

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michael T. McManus

Affiliations UCSF Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, WM Keck Center for Noncoding RNAs, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mark S. Anderson

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark S. Anderson, Lukas T. Jeker

manderson@diabetes.ucsf.edu (MSA); lukas.jeker@unibas.ch (LTJ)

Affiliation UCSF Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lukas T. Jeker

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark S. Anderson, Lukas T. Jeker

manderson@diabetes.ucsf.edu (MSA); lukas.jeker@unibas.ch (LTJ)

Current Address: Department of Biomedicine, Basel University Hospital and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Affiliations UCSF Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, 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: ISK MSA LTJ. Performed the experiments: ISK CYP AM NS LTJ. Analyzed the data: ISK JLP AJB DJE MSA LTJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CYP MTM. Wrote the paper: ISK MSA LTJ.