About the Authors

Alexis C. Frazier-Wood

LekkiWood@Gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Section on Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Office of Energetics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Edmond K. Kabagambe

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, School of Public Health, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Ingrid B. Borecki

Affiliation Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Hemant K. Tiwari

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jose M. Ordovas

Affiliations Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, The Department of Epidemiology and Population Genetics, Centro Nacional Investigación Cardiovasculares (CNIC) Madrid, Spain, IMDEA Food, Madrid, Spain

Donna K. Arnett

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, School of Public Health, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACFW EKK JMO. Performed the experiments: JMO. Analyzed the data: ACFW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMO DKA. Wrote the paper: ACFW. Critical review of the manuscript: EKK IBB HKT JMO DKA.