About the Authors

Erika M. Munch

Contributed equally to this work with: Erika M. Munch, R. Alan Harris, Mahmoud Mohammad

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

R. Alan Harris

Contributed equally to this work with: Erika M. Munch, R. Alan Harris, Mahmoud Mohammad

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mahmoud Mohammad

Contributed equally to this work with: Erika M. Munch, R. Alan Harris, Mahmoud Mohammad

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, The Children’s Nutrition Research Center, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ashley L. Benham

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sasha M. Pejerrey

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lori Showalter

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Min Hu

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Cynthia D. Shope

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Patricia D. Maningat

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, The Children’s Nutrition Research Center, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Preethi H. Gunaratne

Affiliations Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Morey Haymond

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, The Children’s Nutrition Research Center, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kjersti Aagaard

aagaardt@bcm.edu

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KA EM MM PM M. Haymond. Performed the experiments: KA EM RH MM AB SP LS M. Hu CS PM PG M. Haymond. Analyzed the data: KA RH CS PG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KA RH MM AB PM PG M. Haymond. Wrote the paper: KA EM RH MM M. Haymond.