About the Authors

Juan C. Lopez-Alvarenga

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan C. Lopez-Alvarenga, Geetha Chittoor, Solomon F. D. Paul

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

juan.lopezalvarenga@utrgv.edu

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

Geetha Chittoor

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan C. Lopez-Alvarenga, Geetha Chittoor, Solomon F. D. Paul

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, United States of America

Solomon F. D. Paul

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan C. Lopez-Alvarenga, Geetha Chittoor, Solomon F. D. Paul

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Sobha Puppala

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Vidya S. Farook

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

Sharon P. Fowler

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Roy G. Resendez

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

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

Joselin Hernandez-Ruiz

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Hospital General de Mexico “Dr. Eduardo Liceaga”, Mexico City, Mexico

Alvaro Diaz-Badillo

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

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

David Salazar

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Border Health Office, College of Health Professions, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, United States of America

Doreen D. Garza

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Border Health Office, College of Health Professions, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, United States of America

Donna M. Lehman

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Srinivas Mummidi

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

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

Rector Arya

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Christopher P. Jenkinson

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Jane L. Lynch

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Ralph A. DeFronzo

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

John Blangero

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Daniel E. Hale

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Penn State University, Hershey, PA, United States of America

Ravindranath Duggirala

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.