About the Authors

Michelle R. Jones

Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle R. Jones, Meredith A. Brower

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Meredith A. Brower

Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle R. Jones, Meredith A. Brower

Affiliation Department Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ning Xu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jinrui Cui

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Emebet Mengesha

Affiliation The F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yii-Der I. Chen

Affiliation Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Kent D. Taylor

Affiliation Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Ricardo Azziz

Affiliation Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Mark O. Goodarzi

mark.goodarzi@cshs.org

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 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: MRJ MAB MOG. Performed the experiments: MRJ NX EM. Analyzed the data: MRJ MAB JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YDIC KDT RA. Wrote the paper: MRJ MAB MOG.