About the Authors

Hans E. Hohmeier

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

Affiliations Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Lu Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Brandon Taylor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Samuel Stephens

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Center, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliations Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Danhong Lu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Peter McNamara

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Bryan Laffitte

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, United States of America

Christopher B. Newgard

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

chris.newgard@duke.edu

Affiliations Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests. BT, BL, and PM were employees of the Genomics Institute of the Norvartis Foundation in La Jolla during the performance of these studies. The work was funded by grants from the JDRF to Duke (CBN and HEH, grant 1-SRA-2017-356) and the GNF team (grant 15-2013-582). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.