About the Authors

M. Lucrecia Alvarez

Affiliation Diabetes, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Center, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Johanna K. DiStefano

jdistefano@tgen.org

Affiliation Diabetes, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Center, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLA JKD. Performed the experiments: MLA. Analyzed the data: MLA. Wrote the paper: MLA JKD.