About the Authors

William C. Hsu

Affiliation Asian American Diabetes Initiative, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ka Hei Karen Lau

Affiliation Asian American Diabetes Initiative, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Motonobu Matsumoto

Affiliation R&D Department, Sunstar Inc., Osaka, Japan

Dalia Moghazy

Affiliation Asian American Diabetes Initiative, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hillary Keenan

Affiliation Dianne Nunnally Hoppes Laboratory for Diabetes Complications, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

George L. King

george.king@joslin.harvard.edu

Affiliations Asian American Diabetes Initiative, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Dianne Nunnally Hoppes Laboratory for Diabetes Complications, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

M. Matsumoto is a paid member of Sunstar, Inc., which was one of the funders of this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WCH GLK. Performed the experiments: WCH MM. Analyzed the data: HK KL DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: WCH KL DM. Reviewed and edited the manuscript: WCH GLK.