About the Authors

Yuehui Wang

Affiliation Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences and Internal Medicine Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jianing Li

Affiliation Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences and Internal Medicine Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Lihua Tang

Affiliation Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences and Internal Medicine Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Yu Wang

Affiliation Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences and Internal Medicine Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Richard Charnigo

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Willem de Villiers

Affiliation Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences and Internal Medicine Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Erik Eckhardt

erik.eckhardt@uky.edu

Affiliation Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences and Internal Medicine Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EE. Performed the experiments: YW JL LT YW. Analyzed the data: YW JL LT RC WdV EE. Wrote the paper: YW WdV EE.