About the Authors

Noriyuki Komura

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Norikazu Maeda

norikazu_maeda@endmet.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Takuya Mori

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Shinji Kihara

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Hideaki Nakatsuji

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Ayumu Hirata

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Yoshihiro Tochino

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Tohru Funahashi

Affiliations Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Department of Metabolism and Atherosclerosis, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Iichiro Shimomura

Affiliation Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NM NK SK TF IS. Performed the experiments: NK NM TM HN AH YT. Analyzed the data: NK NM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK NM TM SK YT. Wrote the paper: NM NK TF IS.