About the Authors

Jean Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean Huang, Horng-Yih Ou, James Lin

Affiliation Department of Clinical Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America; Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Horng-Yih Ou

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean Huang, Horng-Yih Ou, James Lin

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng-Kung University Medical College and Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

James Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean Huang, Horng-Yih Ou, James Lin

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Rudruidee Karnchanasorn

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Wei Feng

Affiliation Department of Clinical Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America; Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Raynald Samoa

Affiliation Department of Clinical Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America; Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Lee-Ming Chuang

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ken C. Chiu

kchiu@coh.org

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America; Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KCC LMC. Performed the experiments: JH HYO JL RS WF. Analyzed the data: KCC LMC JH HYO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCC RS WF. Wrote the paper: KCC JH HYO JL. Obtained data under the direction of KCC and LMC: JH HYO RK RS WF. Reviewed data: KCC LMC JH HYO JL. Interpreted data: KCC LMC JH HYO JL RK RS WF. Revised the manuscript for important intellectual content: JH HYO JL RK WF RS LMC KCC. Provided administrative, technical, and material support: KCC RS WF.