About the Authors

Piwen Wang

Affiliation Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Susanne M. Henning

shenning@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliation Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David Heber

Affiliation Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, 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: PW SMH. Performed the experiments: PW. Analyzed the data: PW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMH DH. Wrote the paper: PW. Revised the paper: SMH, DH.