About the Authors

Jeffrey K. Lee

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ricki Bettencourt

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

David Brenner

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Thuy-Anh Le

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Elizabeth Barrett-Connor

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Rohit Loomba

roloomba@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL. Performed the experiments: JL. Analyzed the data: RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EBC RL. Wrote the paper: JL RL TAL DAB EBC.