About the Authors

Ion Alexandru Bobulescu

Alexandru.Bobulescu@UTSouthwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and the Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Yair Lotan

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Jianning Zhang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Tara R. Rosenthal

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

John T. Rogers

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Beverley Adams-Huet

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences and the Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Khashayar Sakhaee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and the Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Orson W. Moe

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Physiology, and the Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IAB KS OWM. Performed the experiments: IAB JZ TRR. Analyzed the data: IAB YL JZ TRR JTR BA KS OWM. Wrote the paper: IAB. Revised the article for important intellectual content: IAB YL JZ TRR JTR BA KS OWM. Approved the final version: IAB YL JZ TRR JTR BA KS OWM.