About the Authors

Biswapriya B. Misra

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bbmisraccb@gmail.com

Affiliations Center for Precision Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Molecular Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina United States of America, Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Sobha R. Puppala

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Center for Precision Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Molecular Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina United States of America, Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Anthony G. Comuzzie

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Obesity Society, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Michael C. Mahaney

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute and Department of Human Genetics, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America

John L. VandeBerg

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute and Department of Human Genetics, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America

Michael Olivier

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Precision Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Molecular Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina United States of America, Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Laura A. Cox

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Precision Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Molecular Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina United States of America, Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.