About the Authors

Soren Snitker

Contributed equally to this work with: Soren Snitker, Keming Xie

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Keming Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Soren Snitker, Keming Xie

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathophysiology, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Kathleen A. Ryan

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Daozhan Yu

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Alan R. Shuldiner

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center, Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Braxton D. Mitchell

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Da-Wei Gong

dgong@medicine.umaryland.edu

Affiliations Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center, Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS KX ARS BDM DG. Performed the experiments: SS KX BDM DY DG. Analyzed the data: SS KAR BDM DG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KAR ARS BDM DG. Wrote the paper: SS KX BDM DG.