About the Authors

Danielle Marquete Vitelli-Avelar

Contributed equally to this work with: Danielle Marquete Vitelli-Avelar, Renato Sathler-Avelar

Affiliations Grupo Integrado de Pesquisas em Biomarcadores, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Southwest National Primates Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Renato Sathler-Avelar

Contributed equally to this work with: Danielle Marquete Vitelli-Avelar, Renato Sathler-Avelar

renatosavelar@gmail.com

Affiliations Grupo Integrado de Pesquisas em Biomarcadores, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Southwest National Primates Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States of America, Centro Universitário Newton Paiva, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Faculdade de Minas–FAMINAS-BH, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Armanda Moreira Mattoso-Barbosa

Affiliations Grupo Integrado de Pesquisas em Biomarcadores, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Centro Universitário Newton Paiva, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Faculdade de Minas–FAMINAS-BH, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Nicolas Gouin

Affiliation Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile

Marcelo Perdigão-de-Oliveira

Affiliations Grupo Integrado de Pesquisas em Biomarcadores, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Centro Universitário Newton Paiva, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Leydiane Valério-dos-Reis

Affiliations Grupo Integrado de Pesquisas em Biomarcadores, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Centro Universitário Newton Paiva, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Ronaldo Peres Costa

Affiliation Centro Universitário Newton Paiva, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Silvana Maria Elói-Santos

Affiliations Grupo Integrado de Pesquisas em Biomarcadores, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Departamento de Propedêutica Complementar, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Matheus de Souza Gomes

Affiliation Laboratório de Bioinformática e Análise Molecular, Instituto de Genética e Bioquímica Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Campus Patos de Minas, Patos de Minas, MG, Brazil

Laurence Rodrigues do Amaral

Affiliation Laboratório de Bioinformática e Análise Molecular, Faculdade de Ciência da Computação, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Campus Patos de Minas, Patos de Minas, MG, Brazil

Andréa Teixeira-Carvalho

Affiliation Grupo Integrado de Pesquisas em Biomarcadores, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Olindo Assis Martins-Filho

Affiliation Grupo Integrado de Pesquisas em Biomarcadores, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Edward J. Dick Jr.

Affiliation Southwest National Primates Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Gene B. Hubbard

Affiliation Southwest National Primates Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Jane F. VandeBerg

Affiliations Southwest National Primates Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States of America, South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, School of Medicine, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville/Harlingen/Edinburg, TX, United States of America

John L. VandeBerg

Affiliations Southwest National Primates Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States of America, South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, School of Medicine, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville/Harlingen/Edinburg, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RSA DMVA SMES ATC OAMF JFV JLV. Data curation: RSA DMVA. Formal analysis: RSA DMVA AMMB MPdO LVdR RPC OAMF MdSG LRdA. Funding acquisition: OAMF JFV JLV. Investigation: RSA DMVA EJD GBH NG. Methodology: RSA DMVA AMMB MPdO LVdR RPC OAMF MdSG LRdA. Project administration: JFV JLV. Resources: JFV JLV. Supervision: OAMF JFV JLV. Visualization: RSA DMVA. Writing – original draft: RSA DMVA AMMB MPdO LVdR RPC SMES OAMF JFV JLV. Writing – review & editing: RSA DMVA AMMB ATC OAMF JFV JLV NG.